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How to Create a Decimal Board GameFall Break Homework AssignmentDue Date” October 9th, 2012 (no late submissions) + 350 Credits for a quality board game.

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Decimals

You will create a challenging board game You board game must require players to complete high-

level, decimal computations (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication)

In addition, include: rounding, place value and exponents into your game

Challenging board games have: Roadblocks and false paths that make you backtrack “lucky” squares that helps you to advance

+Planning

Choose a setting for your game board Castle? Cave? Biztown? Colonial Times? Jungle? Digestive Tract (one of the Body Systems we will be

studying) Your own creative idea

+Planning

How will players win? Number of points? Reaching the end?

Decide how players will move around the game board Selecting cards and figuring out problems? Rolling dice? Both?

+Developing your Gameboard

Make a draft of your board

Add details

Use good judgment in determining questions to answer in order to move around the board

Think of adventure and misadventures for your game “see a shooting star…round 12.394 to the nearest tenth to

make a wish and move forward 5 spaces” “Fall off a cliff…Multiply 15.7 X .00003 correctly or move

back 3 spaces”

+Designing You may use whatever you like to make the design of your

board Clip art, Power Point (slide size of 20 in by 20 in), magazine

pics, newspaper, photographs, drawings, etc. If your game requires cards – they should match the theme of

your board Back the game board with cardboard or poster board so that it

is durable

Add mathematical details to your game board that require: +, -, X, division of decimals Rounding Comparing and ordering decimals Exponents Dividing and multiplying by powers of 10 (.4 X 100; .4 X

100,000 etc.)

+Organizing

Finish your game board Type the rules of your game – focus on clear directions and

correct conventions Organize the cards and/or dice Make sure it looks PROFESSIONAL Neat, organized, interesting to look at and mathematically

challenging

+Online Making your Own Game Board OPTIONAL Tools

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Board-Game

Blank Game Board Templates:

http://donnayoung.org/homeschooling/games/game-boards.htm

Game Board Maker

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames

eHow to Make a Board Game

http://www.ehow.com/how_2046016_make-board-game.html