Avalanche!

About this game:

This is mountaineering at its most complex and risky. Teams have to contend with avalanches, ropes breaking, choice camps already occupied, and their own ability (or perhaps lack thereof) to plan a successful strategy so they come out on top. Play On Belay several times first before you tackle this one.

Skills:

Uses: Probability

Develops & Uses: Factors, Problem Solving, Strategy

NCTM Standards:

Pre-K - 2

N/A

Grades 3 - 5

1.3.0 Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.

1.3.2 Develop fluency in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers.

5.4.0 Understand and apply basic concepts of probability.

6.3.0 Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.

8.1.0 Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.

8.2.0 Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

8.3.0 Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.

8.4.0 Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

9.1.0 Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.

Grades 6 - 9

1.1.6 Use factors, multiples, prime factorization and relatively prime numbers to solve problems.

8.1.0 Organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication.

8.2.0 Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

8.3.0 Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others.

8.4.0 Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely.

9.1.0 Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.

Tips & Tricks:

* Play D.5 On Belay first

*Middle school teachers, after your students have played the game once or twice, ask them to write a formula for eligible moves, expressed as an inequalities.

Response to Intervention Tier:

1,2,3