MATHEMATICS

in #education6 years ago

MATH GAME
The following game was developed and used by Ms Nagawa Rebecca to help her students to convert numbers from the decimal base to the required base.

Activity 1
Given 10 marbles:

Activity 2
Given 25 marbles:

In Activity 1 they were converting 10 to the binary base and our answer was .
In Activity 2 they converted 25 to the base three and we got .
The aim was to capture the students' attention, involve everyone and help them to master the concept of changing numbers from base ten to a non decimal base. I achieved my objective and later continued with the method in the usual way and they were able to deal with bigger numbers with confidence.
Review:
For Activity 1, this is the usual procedure:

For Activity 2, this is the usual procedure: