DAMATH Does this look familiar CHECKERS Game Damath

DAMATH

Does this look familiar? CHECKERS Game

Damath

Damath History • Damath comes from the Filipino checker board game called “dama” and mathematics. • It was invented in 1975 by Jesus Huenda, a teacher from Sorsogon, Philippines who had encountered problems in teaching math using traditional teaching methods. • It blends local culture, education, and digital technology that aims to make math teaching and learning student-friendly, challenging, and interactive.

Benefits of Damath • Aside from teaching students how to play strategically, Damath also helps students to further develop and strengthen their math operational skills (operations involving whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, etc). • Students who used to dislike math are actually learning how to use math when they play Damath and in the process learn the subject.

The Game Board

Basic Gameplay • • • Toss a coin to determine which player will have the first move. Moving a chip means sliding it diagonally in the forward direction. Backward direction is only allowed when taking an opponent’s chip. The two players alternately take turns in moving a chip. Pass is not allowed. After each move, the player has to record his/her move in a score sheet. In taking an opponent’s chip, the taker chip jumps over the taken chip and uses the operation symbol it lands on. A chip is declared ‘dama’ if it reaches the end row of the opponent. A ‘dama’ chip can slide diagonally forward or backward in any unoccupied square as long as no opponent’s chip blocks its path. If a ‘dama’ chip takes a chip, its score is doubled. If a ‘dama’ chip takes an opponent’s ‘dama’ chip, its score is quadrupled.

Basic Gameplay, cont’d… • The game ends if: – – The 20 -minute game period lapsed The moves are repetitive A player has no more chip to move An opponent’s chip is cornered • The remaining chip or chips of the players are to be added to their respective scores. If the remaining chip is a “dama”, then its score is also doubled. • The player with the greater accumulated total score wins the game.

Other Applications • • • Counting Numbers: Countess Damath Whole Numbers: Damath-in-a-Whole Integers: Damath the Teeny Integer Decimals: Busy Deci Damath Fractions: Damath Over U Prime Numbers: Damath the Old Prime Madonna Fibonacci Sequence: Damath the Fibo Nutty Lady Binary Numbers: Byte-a-Damath Modulo 12: Damath a la Mod Trigonometric Functions: Trig-a-Damath Scientific Notations: Sci-No-Damath Logarithmic Functions: Log-a-Damath

Useful Websites • Online game http: //download. cnet. com/Damath/3000 -18516_410911683. html • Damath complete notes http: //cnhsec. weebly. com/uploads/2/1/7/7/217748/damath_notes. pdf