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Our goal in June is to increase both our mental math strategies and our ability to be persistent while solving multi-step math problems. The students have been engaging in many activities, many of them different dice games. This weekend have your child teach you how to play Pig, Frog or Farkle.
Cannot remember the rules: Pig One player rolls two dice and adds the two numbers together They can either take the points or roll again and add the sums together Feeling lucky? they can continue rolling as many times as they want Once you stop you bank the points for that round You add each round together until you reach 100 points THE CATCH: you never want to roll a 1. that means you lose all points in that round -if you roll snake eyes you lose all points from all rounds Frog -roll two dice. If the numbers are different add them. If they are doubles multiply them. Do you keep the points? Or do you roll again? -Each round gets a possible 4 rolls -watch out for 1 s. If you roll a one you get 0 points for the round -Who wins after 5 rounds? How to play Farkle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farkle Students are investigating numerous puzzles from this website: https://www.brainbashers.com/today.asp They can teach you how to do skyscrapers, 30 seconds and bridges. These are teaching many different mathematical skills. Happy Game Playing this weekend.
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AuthorHello, My name is Mr. Baker and this is my third year at NCS teaching Math and Science. Please visit my blog regularly for updates on what is being done in the class as well as for extra support with your learning. Archives
June 2019
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