Hello readers! 

Welcome to my first blog post of grade 9!

 

 

 

Today’s post will be about a project I’ve just completed, “Game of exponent laws”. 

This project was based around exponential laws and the main goal of the project was to make a game that featured these exponent laws. 

This was a partner project, my partner was: https://www.blog44.ca/nolanf/.

 

The driving question in this project was: “How does math make games more complex, interesting, and re-playable? 

Math makes games more enjoyable by adding probability, meaning anyone can win. If games were one-sided, these games would be less popular. Furthermore, math adds that sense of strategy, for example in our game there were many different ways to take advantage of your opponent based on the cards you had.

The work that I felt best helped me in answering the driving question was our math workbook, as well as math YouTube videos explaining exponents. There were times in this project where I was really stuck and confused. However, I feel that I have learned lots since the start of the project about exponents, even though I still don’t have a complete understanding.

Another activity that helped me answer the driving question was the Game rules. Throughout this project, we created multiple drafts of these game rules. They helped because we were able to brainstorm/organize all of our ideas on these game rules.

Every project in PLP includes the “Cirricular Competencies”. These competencies help guide the project and display what the expected outcomes are. 

In this project we had 3 competencies, Reasoning and Analyzing, Communicating and Respresenting, and Applying and Innoavating.

 

 

Reasoning and Analyzing: Use logic and patterns to solve puzzles and play games.

I started in this competency with little knowledge about how to make a working game.

In the past I have made games, but they didn’t include much complex math like this project did. By doing the project, I grew this skill tremendously by trying things out, and getting feedback from others. In the end, I extended this particular skill.

Communicating and Representing: Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms.

I started in this competency with not much knowledge because I didn’t  understand the mathematical ideas of this project quite yet. Like I mentioned before, understanding exponents was pretty tough for me, and it took a lot of work in-school, and out-of-school. However, I began to understand more thoroughly, and that showed in how our game looked, and which exponent laws it had.

Applying and Innoavating: Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through individual or collaborative approaches.

I started in this competency as a a good group worker. However, I felt at times where the work was unbalanced because we were lacking communication. Nevertheless, we worked well without issue and that resulted in a good game.

 

To summarize, I really enjoyed the whole board game part of this project. Even though I struggled for a bit with understanding exponents, I feel as that I have learned lots. I also thought making the actual board was fun because I got to add cool medieval drawings, (even though it made it look like Clash Royale). In all, I hope the next project we do is even better than this one!

Thanks for reading!