Prime Climb

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After you play a card, discard it. If you run out of cards, shuffle the discard pile and continue drawing as necessary. 101 and Winning the Game NOTE: Even though Player One was on TWO red spots, he only got to DRAW one card. Only one card can be drawn per turn. Educational benefits aside, at the end of the day Prime Climb is a fun race-style board game that will have players race, scheme and bump their way to a finish line and it should provide hours of entertainment for fans of the genre. Who Is It Not Ideal For? Those who don’t like board games

There's also the possibility for modeling the game with a computer. A friend of mine programmed the expected number of moves it would take to win from any spot.Action Cards can be used for immediate action while Keeper Cards can be kept for later and deployed strategically when needed. The Prime Climb board is color-coded to make multiplication and division easy. Every time you multiply, the colors of the two numbers multiplied together are combined. Prime Climb was created by Daniel Finkel and Katherine Cook of Math for Love, a Seattle-based organization devoted to transforming how math is taught and learned. Divide by 2 (32) and multiply be 3 to end at 96! Division gets you closer to 101 than any of your other options. FAQ With its mix of race-to-the-finish gameplay, competitive bumping and sometimes unpredictable cards, Prime Climb can be a lot of fun to play, particularly for kids who enjoy board games.

Although Prime Climb is for older kids, there's no reason why a 1st grader can't color in the sheet. Just tell them to skip-count by 2s and color a section with the 2 color. Do the same for the 3s, 5s, and 7s, and you'll have colored in a lot. Then you and your kids can discuss how to color in all the pieces that are still unfilled. When your first pawn reaches the 101 circle exactly, remove it from the board. You cannot move to a number past 101, or “bounce off” 101. How can you get two pawns from 0 to 101 in four rolls (that’s eight numbers) without any number appearing on a die more than once? Very cool that you played Prime Climb in your teacher circle! I love your information-organization approach to the problems.As we’ve mentioned, if a player lands on a red space (representing a prime number), they can draw a Prime Card. You CANNOT add the 3 and 9 to use a 12. You CANNOT multiply 3 and 9 to use a 27. You have to apply the numbers on the dice one by one. In the case of doubles, you may use the number you rolled four times instead of twice. The “0” on the dice stands for “10.” You must use all your rolls. You may draw only one card per turn, even if both your pawns end on red spaces. No card trading is allowed! Add, subtract, multiply, or divide the value of each die to your current place on the board. For example, if I’m on START and roll a 3 and 7, I can add 3 and add 7 to end on 10, add 3 and multiply by 7 to end on 21, add 7 and multiply by 3 to end on 21, or add 7 and subtract 3 to end on 4.

From these past few math teacher circles, I’ve discovered that while I’m not usually the fastest at solving problems in the group or the best at seeing unique ways of solving a problem, I do bring something to the group. I’m really good at organizing information and illustrating the problem. When I’m presented with a new problem, it takes me a while to process it. My first instinct is to pause and process the problem, then I try to come up with a way to organize the information I have. Only then, do I try to solve the problem.More than that, we appreciate how the game introduces an element of goal-directed strategic math thinking, where students go beyond simply generating a simple answer and instead have to select operations that will yield a result to suit their needs and purpose.