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Spot It!

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Spot It! (also called Dobble) is a fun math game that has some surprisingly deep math underpinning it. Stop by to play the game, learn a bit about how the cards were made, and then make your own set of cards! Videos: A video on how to play Spot It!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hokzb-fazGM Additional Resources: Spot It!’s…Continue Reading Spot It!

Math Games

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Stop by this booth to play some awesome math games! Proof: https://www.proofmathgame.com/ Prime Climb: https://mathforlove.com/games/prime-climb/ Pass the Pigs: https://winning-moves.com/product/PassThePigs.asp Ricochet Robots: https://robotsevolved.com/#…Continue Reading Math Games

Chess Puzzles

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There are loads of interesting puzzles that you can make using a chessboard and chess pieces. Come try one! Can you solve the knight’s quest? Additional Resources: A Puzzling StackExchange post about defending every square on a chess board: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/22/how-many-chess-pieces-does-it-take-to-cover-all-spaces-on-a-chessboard A Wikipedia article about one of the most classic chess questions; “can a knight reach…Continue Reading Chess Puzzles

The Game of SET

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Are you a fan of the game SET? Are you a master? Have you never, ever, ever played it before? Great! Come learn about this amazing math game and try your hand at beating our SET masters! Additional Resources: A website where you can play SET against human or AI players: https://playset.netlify.app/ A website with…Continue Reading The Game of SET

AI Notakto

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Can a “computer” win a game without being programmed with a strategy? Notakto is a variation of tic-tac-toe where both players play “X” and try to AVOID making three-in-a-row. We’ll use cups to stand in for our computer, tell it a list of valid moves, and reward it for winning. Will our computer find the…Continue Reading AI Notakto