--On April 6, 2006 Ragnardove@xxxxxxx wrote:
I bet you can adapt some of those games (I'm thinking of Volcano, Treehouse, etc) to your class... and there can be ways to bring math into it (how may points - pip count - are in this row after a move, etc).
you could play Treehouse, just cause it's fun... but then keep score as Andy described in a thought reside a few weeks back: "If you're playing Treehouse with only 2 people, you can use the 2 leftover colors for score-keeping! Each time someone wins, they get a point in the overall match; the first to get 6 points (i.e. the complete tree) is the match winner!" your first win, you score a small mid on your second win, you put the small back, and take your 2 pointer on your third win, you take back your small mid again and so on... each of the pyramids has 1, 2, or 3 little pips on them we have also discussed scoring with pyramids with Cosmic Wimpout: <http://www.wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2003/WN.01.30.03.html> and when playing the card game Hearts: <http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/HeartsWithPyramids.html> has anyone on this list played Treehouse yet? http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/Treehouse/ how should we pitch the educational value of this new game? -Kristin