Welcome back to another blog post.
Today the subject is math, more specifically exponents. For our first scimatics project we learned about exponent laws and simple exponent equations. Our project was to make a card game using exponents laws in some way.

First step was to get partners, Emily was my partner and we started the project with our first draft:

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the rules for our first draft:

• Lay out 6 cards in front of you dont look at the 3 cards are to the power of 3 basses

• You start with three cards each you can look at these3 cards

• Each turn you have to pick up a card from the mystery pile or the discard pile

• Then look at the card you picked up and decide which card in your hand you want to switch with one of the 6 facing down unknown cards and put the switched card in the discard pile for the next person

• Goal is to get the smallest score

This game was really good but it didn’t have any exponent laws tied into it.
So here is our revised second draft:

 

 

 

 

 

Rules:
• Lay out 6 cards in front of you dont look at the 3 cards are to the power of 3 basses
• You start with three cards each you can look at these3 cards
• Each turn you have to pick up a card from the mystery pile or the discard pile then look at the card you picked up and decide which card in your hand you want to switch with one of the 6 facing down unknown cards and put the switched card in the discard pile for the next person
• Goal is to get the smallest score

It still wasn’t good enough so back to revising

Our next draft was quite different.
We had new cards and a whole new game.

 

 

 

 

Rules:
• board has 4 cards
• 2 or 4 players
• Each turn you pick up a card and switch with board
• Goal is to get two of the same number in the base position without your opponent knowing
• Once you think you have 2 of the same you yell dos
• Reveal cards if right you keep the pair as points if wrong your opponent gets the pair
• Winner has most points

But once again we had to revise. The reason why we had to revise quite a bit is that we cam up with a great game but it didn’t represent exponent laws.

But then we did it, we got it, we made it and we got a great response.

Our final game:

 

Rules:
• when completed a pair with exponents that player can flip cards and add exponents to create their points
• Most points wins
• If you draw a orange card you can switch your opponents bases so they are dividing instead of multiplying or if they are dividing you can switch it to multiplying
• 2 or 4 players
• Each turn you pick up a card and switch with board
• Goal is to get two of the same number in the base position without your aponant knowing
• Once you think you have 2 of the same you yell doce

In conclusion this project was difficult and challenging but I learned about exponents and different ways to change it. This was a really fun project and I really enjoyed it.