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Throughout the ages and in various cultures, people have played games. How do games involve mathematical thinking?
In this camp, we will play and design games, ask and answer mathematical questions, and reflect on how these games involve mathematical thinking. The games involve physical skills games, card games, strategic games, board games, dice games, and logic puzzles from various historical time periods and regions, such as China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Persia, Europe, and the United States.
The camp intends to help students-Understand how mathematical questions arise from daily life-Become more confident with mathematical thinking-Enjoy problem solving-Become persistent with improving their designs.
Session II: Physical skills games (team work, mental math), board games (strategies, equations), card games (number of possibilities, number patterns, exponents, algebraic expressions), dice games (probabilities, fractions, square and cube roots),.
Session III: Physical skills games (teamwork, mental math), board games (geometry of triangles and other shapes, symmetry, big numbers), dice games (dilations, scatter plots, probabilities, solids), logic puzzles (reasoning).
