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| Artwork and Design by Students in 2015 |
Players start with dragon eggs (which the students made) and using dice and game cards, move across a carefully constructed game board featuring:
> Magic Stones (allow you to pass on a hard question)
> woods and mountains (both risky to travel through)
> a bridge where your dragon egg "hatches" into a dragon (small and plastic- don't worry!)
And more!
Today, we resurrected the game and used math review cards for a fun activity reviewing area, perimeter, and volume. Our eggs traveled from the "Hatchling Nest" as we computed perimeters, solved word problems using area or volume or perimeter, recalled formulas, and practiced multiplication facts along the way!
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| No winner yet... the game continues tomorrow! |
On one, we had to decompose a shape to figure out the total area! On another, Sheldon had to determine how many cubic feet of water would fill a swimming pool. And, on another, Lannie had to find both the area of the roof (a triangle... so... A= 1/2 (base times height)) and of the wall (so, a rectangle, A= L X W).
Andrew's skill in multiplying by 11 was apparent. Itancan was usually the first one to compute the area or volume in his head. And, Kenzie completely lucked out- one time she drew a question card that Sister Patrice had forgotten to write a word problem on! So, it was a free card!
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| Beware of danger as you try to get your dragon safely home! |
