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Incan Gold

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Players venture forth, as a group, into an abandoned temple looking for treasure. As they progress, they may encounter countless riches or unseen dangers.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
20 min.
Incan Gold

Marrakech

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The bazaar is bustling: it's the big day at the rug market! The best salesperson will soon be named!

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
30 min.
Marrakech

Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age

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Build a thriving civilization – in under an hour!
Collect goods, assign workers to build cities and erect monuments, advance your civilization through cultural and scientific developments, but don't forget to harvest enough food to feed your growing population.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Social Studies
Play Time: 
45 min.
Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age

Stone Age

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The times were hard indeed. Our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Social Studies
Play Time: 
60 min.
Stone Age

Probability (1996)

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The “Probability” episode is a sure bet.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Probability

Fleeting Foxes

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In this crazy competition each player tries to be the first to catch the hen with his fox. A player rolls, one by one, the four fox dice. After each throw he has to decide if he wants to move his own fox or the fox of another player as many squares as dots on the dice. But beware!

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Fleeting Foxes

Mummy's Treasure

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Each player, or treasure hunter, has an excavation site board, or a rectangular cardboard grid decorated to look like an Egyptian archeological site. Stacks of treasure tiles are set up between the players, sorted by size and shape.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Mummy's Treasure

Probability, Part 1: Experiment, Theory and Odds (2003)

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--expressing a probability between certainty and impossible as the likelihood of an uncertain event occurring
--conducting and recording probability experiments using small and large number trials with replacement
--calculating the theoretical probability of a particular event occurring
--expressing probabilities as odds

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:13
Probability, Part 1: Experiment, Theory and Odds

Probability, Part 2: Probability Complement and Tree Diagrams (2003)

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--calculating the complement of an event (the probability of the event not occurring)
--the changing probabilities of each of three events occurring in a small number trial experiment without replacement
--representing all possible outcomes from multiple events with a tree diagram

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:15
Probability, Part 2: Probability Complement and Tree Diagrams

Plucky Pilots

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According to an old legend about the volcanic island Habanabi, there lies deep beneath the sea a shipwreck full of gold. The time has come, it seems, for the sea to give away its bounty as suddenly, gold coins are washed all over the shore!

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Plucky Pilots

Formula D

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Formula D is a high stakes Formula One type racing game where the players race simulated cars with the hope of crossing the finish line first. This is a re-release of Formula Dé with several changes from the original format.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
60 min.
Formula D

Can't Stop

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In this Sid Sackson classic, players must press their luck with dice and choose combinations tactically to close out three columns.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Play Time: 
25 min.
Can't Stop

Roll for It!

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Roll For It! is a casual, family-friendly dice and card game. Each player starts the game with six dice of a single color, and three target cards are laid face-up on the table.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Roll for It!

Qwixx

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Qwixx is a quick-playing dice game in which everyone participates, no matter whose turn it is. Each player has a scoresheet with the numbers 2-12 in rows of red and yellow and the numbers 12-2 in rows of green and blue.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Math
Library
Play Time: 
15 min.
Qwixx

Very Improbable Story, A

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Ethan wakes up one morning to find a very strange cat stuck on his head. The cat, Odds, refuses to budge until Ethan wins a game of probability. Without looking, Ethan must pick out a dime from his coin collection or two matching socks from his dresser, or do something else improbable. If he doesn't, Odds is there to stay, and Ethan has a 100% chance of missing his big soccer game.

Very Improbable Story, A

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