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Damath

Damath is a board game invented in the Philippines that combines elements of checkers with mathematics operations and concepts. It was created to make math teaching and learning more interactive and engaging for students. Players move chips across the board and perform math operations dictated by the space their chip lands on. The goal is to capture opponents' chips while practicing skills like counting, fractions, integers, polynomials, and more. Various versions exist tailored to different math concepts. Research found it helped students improve their math abilities while finding the subject more enjoyable.

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Damath

Damath is a board game invented in the Philippines that combines elements of checkers with mathematics operations and concepts. It was created to make math teaching and learning more interactive and engaging for students. Players move chips across the board and perform math operations dictated by the space their chip lands on. The goal is to capture opponents' chips while practicing skills like counting, fractions, integers, polynomials, and more. Various versions exist tailored to different math concepts. Research found it helped students improve their math abilities while finding the subject more enjoyable.

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DAMATH

Does this look familiar?

CHECKERS Game
Damath
Polynomial Damath
Damath History
• Damath comes from the Filipino checker board game called
“dama” and mathematics.

• It was invented in 1975 by Jesus Huenda, a teacher from


Sorsogon, Philippines who had encountered problems in
teaching math using traditional teaching methods.

• It blends local culture, education, and digital technology that


aims to make math teaching and learning student-friendly,
challenging, and interactive.
Benefits of Damath
• Aside from teaching students how to play strategically,
Damath also helps students to further develop and
strengthen their math operational skills (operations involving
whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, etc).

• Students who used to dislike math are actually learning how


to use math when they play Damath and in the process learn
the subject.
The Game Board
HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
1. DAMATH BOARD

‘The Board’
the Sci-damaths board measures 32 cm x 32 cm with 8 x8
squares. It contains 24 chips in two colors ( 12 chips of each color).
Each chip measure 2 cm in diameter.
HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
2. 24 CHIPS
HOW TO PLAY DAMATH

Prepare the following:

3. SCORE SHEETS
HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
4. CALCULATOR (optional)
HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
5. ARBITER/teacher
DAMATH Applications
• COUNTING DAMATHS
• WHOLE DAMATHS
• FRACTION DAMATHS
• INTEGER DAMATHS
• RATIONAL DAMATHS
• RADICAL DAMATHS
• POLYNOMIAL DAMATHS
• BINARY DAMATHS
Basic Gameplay
• Toss a coin to determine which player will have the first move.
• Moving a chip means sliding it diagonally in the forward direction.
• Backward direction is only allowed when taking an opponent’s chip.
• The two players alternately take turns in moving a chip. Pass is not
allowed.
• After each move, the player has to record his/her move in a score
sheet.
• In taking an opponent’s chip, the taker chip jumps over the taken chip
and uses the operation symbol it lands on.
• A chip is declared ‘dama’ if it reaches the end row of the the
opponent.
• A ‘dama’ chip can slide diagonally forward or backward in any
unoccupied square as long as no opponent’s chip blocks its path.
• If a ‘dama’ chip takes a chip, its score is doubled.
• If a ‘dama’ chip takes an opponent’s ‘dama’ chip, its score is
quadrupled.
Basic Gameplay, cont’d…
• The game ends if:
– The moves are repetitive
– A player has no more chip to move
– An opponent’s chip is cornered
• The remaining chip or chips of the players are to be added to
their respective scores. If the remaining chip is a “dama”, then
its score is also doubled.
• The player with the greater accumulated total score wins the
game.
START POSITIONS
COUNTING
DAMATH
START POSITIONS
WHOLE
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
FRACTION
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
INTEGER
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
RATIONAL
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
RADICAL
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
POLYNOMIAL
DAMATHS
START POSITIONS
BINARY
DAMATHS

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