Thursday, May 7, 2015

They actually ask to play it during their study hall! Mathonopoly

I brought this game in to review congruent triangle postulates and the students absolutely loved it!  I kid you not I had students ask to borrow the game to play during their study hall period.

I don't remember where I found this idea, but there are several lower level math monopoly boards out there.

There is quite a setup with it, but once you get your cards assembled it is a quick and fun go to for review of quick skills.  I wouldn't suggest using this for something like solving multistep equations, but something like very basic factoring would work perfectly (ie x^2 + 4x + 4).  I first used this with recognizing triangle congruent theorems from pictures.  

The cards from my templates are personalized to my classroom so should you decide to use it you may want to look through the chance and community chest cards to personalize to your classroom.  These are the cards that make the game so fun! 

It's played very similar to Monopoly.  I use points instead of dollars and start everyone off with 200 points.  When a player lands on a number they pull that number card out of the stack and try to answer.  Someone else checks their answer from the back of the card.  If they get it right then they own that space and anytime someone lands on their space there is an exchange of points based on the number associated with that space.  If they land on a community chest or chance card then they chose a card from the appropriate stack and do as it says.  I used the other spaces (electric company and the train spots) as just safe places but you can set different parameters of course.  I usually let my classes decide if points should be lost for getting the wrong answer.  

I find it works best in groups of three or four.  

Besides the printouts, the other materials you will need are die and player pieces.  

The cards are meant to be manually fed front to back in a printer (ie not a copier).

Mathonopoly - Congruent triangles







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