"Sum" Fall Math Fun!

Today we played a Fall Addition game.  We had to roll a dice.  Move that number of spaces, in any direction, on the game board. 

Then, we had to solve the addition equation that was in the square we landed on.  Lastly, we had to color in the corresponding square on the our hundreds chart. (Our goal was to fill all squares 1-14 on our hundreds chart first.)

For example: If the equation was 4+5, then we would color in the number 9 square on our hundreds chart.



After we played the game, Mrs. Wanke had us write the answers to each equation on the game board.  Then, we graphed how many times we got a particular answer or sum. 

For example, we had only 1 square that had an equation with the answer or sum 1.  So on our graph we put one X.  (See the picture of our graph below.)

After looking at the information on the graph we discussed how this information could change the way we played the game.  Our goal was to fill in all the squares 1-14 on our hundreds chart.  If we had a choice to go left and land on a square that would have the answer of 1 or go right and land on a square that would have the answer 9, we would choose to go left and land on the square that would allow us to fill in the 1 square.  Since there are more squares that have the answer of 9 it would be more strategic for us to go to the square with the answer of 1 .  The odds of us getting a square with the answer of 9 is greater than our chances of getting a square with the answer of 1.

We will play this game again on Monday...who know there might be another twist!