Math

Math Night Instructions

Here are the instructions that come with your domino kits that you received at Dad and Kid Math Night. Check back often as we will add more games as we find them. Also check out all of the great Math websites below the instructions.

1. Addition Battle

Mix the dominoes and then put all of them to one side of the table
Each player draws 2 dominoes from the pile and turns them over.
Add together all of the dots on your dominos The largest sum wins that round and keeps all of the dominoes
Play ends when all of the dominoes have been drawn.
The player with the most dominoes wins.

2. Subtraction Battle

Mix the dominoes and then put all of them to one side of the table
Each player draws 2 dominoes from the pile and turns them over.
Subtract the smaller number of dots from the larger number of dots The smallest difference wins that round and keeps all of the dominoes
Play ends when all of the dominoes have been drawn.
The player with the most dominoes wins.

3. Multiplication Battle

Mix the dominoes and then put all of them to one side of the table
Each player draws 2 dominoes from the pile and turns them over.
Multiply the number of dots on one side by the number of dots on the other side The largest product wins that round and keeps all of the dominoes
Play ends when all of the dominoes have been drawn.
The player with the most dominoes wins.

4. Action 18

Player one draws a domino. Players add them together.
The first player to give the correct answer out loud scores one point and wins the domino
Players alternate drawing dominoes and continue to accumulate points (dominoes).
Players must take a point away (lose the domino) for giving the wrong answer.
First player to score eighteen points is the winner.

5. Baseball Addition Dominoes

Each Player draws three dominoes and arranges them into a 3 digit addition problem.
The object is to make the largest sum possible.
The player with the highest sum scores one point.
Each player takes a 3 dominoes and continues.
The first player to store 9 points (innings) wins.

6. Pig

Pig is played by 2 people with dominoes.
The object is to be the first player to score 100 points by adding the totals on the dominoes after each turn.
The players take turns drawing dominoes, however, a player may draw as many times as he wishes as long as he does not draw a domino with a one.
If a 1 is drawn the player gives up the turn and loses all points earned during that turn.
If the double 1 or the double blank is drawn, the player gives up the turn, loses all his count, and starts again at 0.

7. Domino Windows

This is a challenge that you might like to take on by yourself or with a group of friends. In this diagram the four dominoes make a ‘window’ with one empty space. The spots on each side total nine. Can you make seven windows like this using all 28 dominoes so that each window has the same spot-sum for each side? One window need not have the same spot-sum as another. (nrich.maths.org)