Abstract: A game for enhancing mathematical skills is played in the a classroom with teams of players or individual players. In accordance with one embodiment, the game utilizes a branched lattice having a central starting point and a plurality of terminal points. The lattice is placed on the floor of a classroom. In playing the game, students select three numbers from a location on the classroom wall and factor those three numbers to find the prime factors of the numbers, which prime factors are then recorded in input/output tables. The tables have an output line or column in which the output value "-1" is written if the number of factors is odd; the output value "0" is written if the output value includes repeated primes, indicating raising a prime to a power; and the output value "+1" is written if the number of prime factors is even. The output values are used to locate the input/output tables, which are on slips of paper, at correct terminal points of the lattice.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 24, 1996
Date of Patent:
January 6, 1998
Assignee:
Robert P. Moses
Inventors:
Robert Parris Moses, Maisha V. Moses, Tabasuri W. Moses