TOPIC TWO MATH PROJECT: ADDING AND SUBTRACTING DECIMALS

DUE MONDAY, OCTOBER 8TH-

YOU MAY WORK ALONE ON THIS ACTIVITY OR WITH ONE OTHER PARTNER. TWO IS MAXIMUM.

Beginning the chapter project:

What makes a board game so much fun? You have challenges like roadblocks or false paths that make you backtrack. Then you land on a lucky square that lets you leap forward past your opponent. Best of all, you are with your friends as you play. For this topic project, you will use mathematics to create a game. Then you will play your game with friends or family for a trial run. Finally, you will decorate your game and bring it to class to play.

Activity One Planning: Choose a setting for your game board. Is the game in a cave, in a castle, or in a person’s digestive track? Decide whether you want players to move by selecting cards, rolling number cubes or both. Do you want the end of the game to be determined by the number of points someone has or by reaching an end square?

Activity Two: Developing: Make a draft of your game board. Add details. Use good judgment in determining questions to answer in order to move around your board. Think of adventures and misadventures for your game like “See a shooting star. Round 12.392 to the nearest tenth to make a wish and move forward 5 spaces” or “Fall off a cliff. Add 15.7 to 0.030 correctly or move back 3 spaces.”

Activity Three: Designing: Add details to your game board that require decimal skills such as adding, subtracting decimals, place value, rounding and estimation with decimals, scientific notation, expanded notation and even the rules of divisibility. You may include other math skills as well. Create the board using Power Point with slide size of 20 in x 20 in. Use illustrations and color and put a cardboard backing on the game board. (If you choose, you may modify the format to make smaller but make sure it is big enough but not “giant size.” We may want to display it. If there is another format you wish to use, please discuss with your teacher).

Activity Four: Organizing: Finish your game board and write the rules of your game. Organize everything needed to play your game.

HOW WILL MY TOPIC TWO MATH PROJECT BE GRADED?

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Decimal-Math Knowledge / Your game included opportunities to use addition & subtraction of decimals as well as other decimal related concepts such as estimation, expanded notation, place value along with divisibility. / Your game provided opportunities for most but not all decimal-place value related concepts. / Your game focused on one or two decimal related concepts. For example, addition and subtraction only. / Your game included no more than one aspect of decimal calculations and uses.
Rules / Rules were written clearly enough so that all could easily understand and participate. / Rules were written but one part of the game needed slightly more explanation. / Rules were written but there was some difficulty figuring out the game. / The rules were not written.
Creativity / You put a lot of thought into making the game interesting and fun to play as shown by creative questions, game pieces and-or game board. / You put some thought into making the game interesting and fun to play by using textures, fancy writing and-or interesting characters. / You tried to make the game interesting and fun but some of the things made it harder to understand-enjoy the game. / Little thought was put into making the game interesting or fun.
Presentation / The game board, rules and other related materials are very well-presented and are free or any errors. / The game board, rules and any other related materials are well presented. It is mostly error free. / The game board was not well presented but only contained minor errors. / The game board was presented in a way that showed little or no effort. It contained many errors.