Equations

Equations

What Do Players Learn? EQUATIONS is the Game of Creative Mathematics. EQUATIONS involves authentic learning experiences and problem solving at the highest levels.

All grade levels play with the same set of procedural rules. However, each division level of competition introduces increasingly more difficult mathematical concepts for the players to use. Players are challenged to use their mathematical knowledge and ability and to develop new skills in progressively more competitive ways. Players usually learn more from applying their knowledge in the competition than they do in their normal classroom studies.

Elementary Division (grades 4-6) players concentrate on the six basic mathematical operations (+ - x ÷ ^). At the Adventurous level, which introduces variations to the basic game, such concepts as factorials, greatest common factor, least common multiple, averaging, fractions, negative numbers, decimals, and percents are made available to the players. Please see the elementary division variation sheet to view all of the challenges our players are encouraged to use in competition.

Middle Division (grades 7-8) players continue to use everything that is available to the Elementary Division as well as new concepts such as working in bases other than base ten, fractional and negative powers and roots, and other challenging middle division variations.

Junior and Senior Division (grades 9-12) players have all that is available from the lower levels and may also choose such new concepts as modular arithmetic, imaginary numbers, and other challenging junior variations or senior variations depending on the division.