It's Math Monday! Join Mandy at Enjoy and Embrace Learning for the Math Monday link up!
Today I'd like to share one of my favorite brain games. It's a game that, now that I think about it, reinforces many of the Standards for Mathematical Practice.* I think I'll teach it at indoor recess today!
It's the game SET.
I have 4-6 decks of SET cards, but I was thrilled to find SET dice on sale at United Art and Education this past weekend.
You can play one free game per day online here, or you can play a multiplayer game in realtime here. There is also SET for iPhone and iPad.
In the game of SET, players must find combinations of color, shape, shading, or number that are either all alike in some way, or all different in some way. On the game board above, you can see that I made a SET with all purple, all solid, all three, all diamonds. I also made a set with all the same color (purple) and shading (solid), but all different number and shape. I have a set with all the same shading and shape, but all different color and number, and another with all the same number, shape and shading, but all different colors.
It's a great game. If you haven't played it yet (or recently)...what's stopping you?!?!
*CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2 Reason abstractly...
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6 Attend to precision.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7 Look for and make use of (patterns and) structure.
I LOVE Set and makes math fun, we have it in our indoor recess box and I must teach it today. I didn't know there were dice and apps and online opportunities. Thanks for sharing and participating in #mathmonday.
ReplyDeleteI love Set but I also didn't know about the dice!
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