“How does math make games more complex, interesting, and re-playable ?” Was the driving question for the project I just finished named “game of exponent laws”. What we were trying to accomplish with this project is making a board game that includes, you guessed it, exponent laws. I am not going to lie and say that this project was easy because it really wasn’t because we had to add as many exponent laws as possible which is not an easy task. 

But my answer to the driving question is the following. It makes is more complex because you have to use mental calculation a lot, it makes it more interesting because you learn a lot wile playing it and it makes it re-playable because it can have a different winner each time you play.

My game was pretty much a combination of candyland and shoots and ladders but with exponents, rulers and pencils instead on slides and ladders and a wheel instead of dice. We all really enjoyed those games growing up so we did this as a tribute to our childhood. Here is the game board so you know what I mean. 

Go checkout my partners blogs. Luca: www.blog44.ca/lucap Ben: www.blog44.ca/bent. Also go check out these two peoples blogs because I found their game to be the best in the two classes that did this project. Max: www.blog44.ca/maxr Nolan: www.blog44.ca/nolanf.

This project, even though it only lasted a month, has been the project that I have learned the most from in my life. And on top of that it was very fun to do. I really like this kind of project because I learn a lot of things that I will use in my future math classes but It was presented in a fun way. This projects main focus was to learn about exponent laws which we definitely did and here is my proof that I remember most of it.

Most of the people I talked to didn’t get over 20 which shows that I learned and retained more than most people. Also I handed everything in on time and finished all the textbook pages with most of if not all the answers right.

Now the curricular competencies.

There are 3 curricular competencies; Reasoning and Analyzing, Communicating and Representing, and Applying and Innovating. And in the photo below it goes more into detail and I say why I did those good.

If I could change anything I would add more exponent laws so I could get extending also maybe adding a point system to make the game just that more interesting.

To conclude, I learned about what exponents were in grade 6 and studied them for a bit but I never really enjoyed doing it. Until we started this project because it seemed like I was the only person in class that knew what they were which made me feel very confident I would do good in this project.