Host Your Own Family Math Night

Designed by a 5th grader for the entire family to play. Ideal for 1 to 5 players, use math to be the first to the finish line and save your turtles.

Highlight: Level playing field so adults and kids can play together.

A game of addition and subtraction that wasn't quite right the first time.  

Highlight: Iteration

Quote by the game maker:
My first idea was to make a game with an aquarium background. Then, I needed to focus on the game first, and the look after.

In this twist of the numeric version of Achi, certain locations allow for teleportation and others for double stacking.

With these twists, the number combinations for both winning and blocking completely change your gameplay strategy.

Highlight: Great strategic math twist

Made by several students, this multiplayer game involves building expressions and offers an interesting use of a turtle's ability to be on land and in the water. Get stuck in the pond and your turtle needs to roll a 6 to get back to land.

Highlight: Multiplayer game. Leveraging a real-life connection (amphibians ).

Instead of creating an "ideal" game in this student's mind, this student created for a 7-yr old brother and 6-yr old sister.

Highlight: Designed for a specific, authentic audience.

Quote from the game maker: 
I didn’t really make the game I wanted to like a super hard mind blowing game. I wanted to be able to play the game with my siblings.

This kindergartener created a memory game using household items.  This let's the game be about as simple to DIY as possible.  

Study the items, cover them up and describe them in as much detail as possible.  Increase the number of items or make different items as similar to each other as possible.

Highlight: Excellent DIY while keeping the game tricky, but fun.