After School Math Games
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Day 5
Activity 1 ~ SLEUTHS ON THE LOOSE
Directions: You will find the height of each
creature. You do have to read the screen before
proceeding. You do need to record your answers on
the recording
sheet. Click
here, then click PLAY GAME! When you get all the creatures done
(there are 3), raise your hand and get a sticker.
Activity 2 ~ BROKEN CALCULATOR
Directions: Click the link below. The dimmed buttons
on the calculator are broken (they don't work!). Your goal
is to use the buttons that do work to compute the numbers
from 1 through 15. Try it-experiment. When you
get all the numbers raise your hand and get a sticker.
Click here to begin Broken
calculator.
Extension Activity ~ HEX-7 Game
Directions: White goes first. Play against
the computer. You try to get an unbroken chain of your color (for
example, white) all the way across the board between your colored
edges (for example, white edges). Click
here, then click New Game! When you beat the computer, raise
your hand and get a sticker. This is challenging, so you
might want to read the hints and suggestions (see "About Hex").
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Previous Activities
Day 4
Activity 1 ~ FIND GRAMPY
Directions: Look at this example and scroll down to the answer.
The link to Find Grampy is below.
You will type numbers into the blanks
and Click OK. You do have to simplify the fraction to
lowest terms. If you are right, the screen will look like this:
When you are correct, raise you
hand for a sticker. Click DRAW for a new problem.
Do this 3 Times. You can get 3 stickers.
Now you are ready to click the link Find
Grampy.
Activity 2 ~ POINT OF VIEW GAME
Directions: Cyberchase
Point of View Game - Draw the side views for each of four
people. After each level completed, get a sticker. (There are 10 levels, and
it does get challenging!!)
Day 3
Activity 1 ~ MAKE A MATCH FRACTION GAME
Directions: You will make
matches. Like these.
Each time you make all the matches on the screen, raise your hand
and get a sticker.
Click
here, then click PLAY GAME (click "instructions" if
you want to read them).
Activity 2 ~ AIRLINES BUILDER GAME
Directions: Cyberchase
Airlines Builder Game - Drag (and sometime rotate) pieces
to make a spaceship. A spaceship must be an enclosed shape.
Record your spaceships on the activity
sheet.
Day 2
Activity 1 ~ WHERE IS DIGIT
Directions: Read the screen. You will find the location of "Digit"
the bird using the power of circles. Click
here to play. When you get the
small green circle in the place where Digit is, raise
your hand and get a sticker.
Activity 2 ~ GOLF
Directions: You need a recording
sheet for this. Click
here to play golf. When you have the sheet completed raise your
hand and get a sticker.
Extension Activity if you get done early ~ FLIPPING PANCAKES
Directions: Click the link Flipping
Pancakes. Scroll down a bit to get to the black box. The rectangles
are pancakes!
- Click a pancake and your flipper "goes under that pancake." This
means that pancake and all above it get flipped.
- Experiment to understand the rule in (a) works. Flip some
pancakes!
- Your goal is to flip the pancakes so they are from big (on
the bottom) to small (on the top).
When you have a strategy, go to the next step.
- Try to figure out a strategy that works for 9 pancakes.
Day 1
Activity 1 ~ HIDDEN PICTURE ~ Warm up
Directions: Click the links below, click New Game, questions are
at the bottom, click the answers. When you reveal the picture
raise your hand and get a sticker.
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication - do this one twice--get two stickers.
Activity 2 ~ MISSION MAGNETITE
Directions: Click on equivalent percents, fractions, and pictures.
Click
here to play. When you've broken the code 5 times raise your
hand and get a sticker.
Extension Activity if you get done early ~ CYBERCHASE SQUARES
Directions: You will find the counter-example (a counter-example
is an example that shows that the statement is not true). Click
here, then click PLAY GAME!
Come back next week for more After School Math Games.
