+ How to Create a Decimal Board Game Fall Break Homework Assignment Due Date” October 9 th, 2012 (no late submissions) Credits for a quality board game.

+ Show What you Know about 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 to the nearest tenth to make a wish and move forward 5 spaces” “Fall off a cliff…Multiply 15.7 X 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 Blank Game Board Templates: boards.htm Game Board Maker eHow to Make a Board Game