A local animal shelter has a puppies and kittens available for adoption that you just happen to be itching to own! In this week’s “paw-some” activity, two players begin with a certain number of animals to choose from and take turns adopting animals. The player to adopt the last animal wins! We'll be constructing a strategy for beating this game and exploring a bit of sequences.

Mathematical Games
Problem Solving / General

Manipulatives
Multiple Representations
Try a Smaller Problem
Work Backwards

MP1 - Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
MP3 - Construct viable arguments and critique others' reasoning.
MP4 - Model with mathematics.
MP8 - Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.