It does not, however, directly cover certain other topics (such as geometry, graphing, statistics and more) that some parents may wish to work on and may not be as useful for them. Price If you draw a Keeper Card, keep that card, face up, for a future turn. You may play any number of Keeper Cards during your Move Phase. You may not play a Keeper card the turn you draw it. Educational benefits aside, at the end of the day Prime Climb is a fun race-style board game that will have players race, scheme and bump their way to a finish line and it should provide hours of entertainment for fans of the genre. Who Is It Not Ideal For? Those who don’t like board games STEP TWENTY-ONE: Player One does not DRAW a card because he is not on an all-red spot. His turn is over.

Maybe this is why I’m so drawn to interactive notebooks. I love organizing information. I’m not the fastest at math. I’m not the best. I’m not the cleverest. But, I am really good at visually organizing information.

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For example, say you have a pawn at 14 and one of your rolls is a 3. You decide to multiply 14 by 3, but aren’t sure what that product is. The colors will tell you. Notice that 14 is orange and purple, while 3 is green. That means that 14 times 3 will be orange, purple, and green. The only circle with exactly those colors is 42, which is 14 times 3. As a result, Prime Club’s card element can help teach players to plan ahead and come up with different tactics and strategies to deploy in game. How It Works

In this way we feel that, like some other games we’ve seen such as Tapple, it can be a good way to provide focused drill without frustrating them with mind-numbing exercises or rote work.As students play Prime Climb they are challenged to work on their operations and prime factorization skills.

You roll double 2s, with a pawn on 78, and an opponent pawn on 42. This means you have four 2s that you must use. You could: With that said, we feel that the game can be used by kids of just about any age (such as homeschooling students following a more advanced math curricula) so long as they are comfortable with the underlying math skills required and, of course, are able to sit still and learn, remember and adhere to the usual series of sequential and conditional rules that board games tend to involve (if a piece lands on X then do Y).

From these past few math teacher circles, I’ve discovered that while I’m not usually the fastest at solving problems in the group or the best at seeing unique ways of solving a problem, I do bring something to the group. I’m really good at organizing information and illustrating the problem. When I’m presented with a new problem, it takes me a while to process it. My first instinct is to pause and process the problem, then I try to come up with a way to organize the information I have. Only then, do I try to solve the problem. Two core elements of the game are understanding and applying the concept of prime numbers and understanding and dealing with multiple potential solutions to a given problem, two exercises that often pop up in conceptual math curricula. Fans of race-style board games Add 9 to move one pawn from 4 to 13, and multiply by 3 to move the other from 26 to 78. Since 13 is completely red, you would draw a card. In addition to these decisions, Prime Climb also has its Prime Cards, which can suddenly change up a game by modifying, restricting or amplifying player positions and performance. In the actual game, Dan colored all the prime factors over 10 with red, but you don't have to be that constrained. You can make 11s be yellow polka dots and 13s be pink squiggles. Have fun with it!