Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6 - EduGains

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Game Instructions
Instructions for Playing “Check Mate”
1. Making your own game board
Each person draws four rectangles on his or her “Your Shapes” grid, making at
least one of them a square. Your team needs to make sure that your rectangles
are in the same place.
Rectangles must not overlap and need to be traced over the grid lines. Teams
must not see their opponents’ grids.
2. Playing the game
On each team, each person has a copy of the game boards to keep track of the
guesses in the game.
Each team takes turns naming a location where they think their opponents may
have drawn a rectangle. Remember: name the letter before the number. Each
person records hits (√) or misses (X) on the “Your Opponents’ Shapes” grid to
keep track of the team’s guesses.
Each person marks on the “Your Shapes” game board the hits and misses made
by the opponents. If your opponents name a position inside one of your team’s
rectangles, say, “Check”, and make a check mark inside that cell. If your oppo-
nents name a position outside your team’s rectangles, say, “Miss”, and make
an X inside that cell. When the other team completely fills one of your team’s
rectangles, say, “Check Mate”. Be sure to mark all hits and misses, so that your
team and your opponents’ team can compare game boards at the end of the
game.
3. Ending the game
When one team has check marks inside all of the other team’s rectangles, the
game is over.
The teams review each other’s sheets to make sure that no mistakes have
been made.
Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6