DAMATH

Does this look familiar?

Damath
 Damath History

• Damath comes from the Filipino checker board game called

“dama” and mathematics.

• It was invented in 1975 by Jesus Huenda, a teacher from

Sorsogon, Philippines who had encountered problems in teaching
math using traditional teaching methods.

• It blends local culture, education, and digital technology that

aims to make math teaching and learning student-friendly,
challenging, and interactive.
 Benefits of Damath

• Aside from teaching students how to play strategically,

Damath also helps students to further develop and strengthen
their math operational skills (operations involving whole
numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, etc).

• Students who used to dislike math are actually learning how

to use math when they play Damath and in the process learn
the subject.
The Game Board
 Basic Gameplay
• Toss a coin to determine which player will have the first move.
• Moving a chip means sliding it diagonally in the forward direction.
• Backward direction is only allowed when taking an opponent’s chip.
• The two players alternately take turns in moving a chip. Pass is not
allowed.
• After each move, the player has to record his/her move in a score
sheet.
• In taking an opponent’s chip, the taker chip jumps over the taken chip
and uses the operation symbol it lands on.
• A chip is declared ‘dama’ if it reaches the end row of the the
opponent.
• A ‘dama’ chip can slide diagonally forward or backward in any
unoccupied square as long as no opponent’s chip blocks its path.
• If a ‘dama’ chip takes a chip, its score is doubled.
• If a ‘dama’ chip takes an opponent’s ‘dama’ chip, its score is
quadrupled.
 Basic Gameplay, cont’d…
• The game ends if:
– The 20-minute game period lapsed
– The moves are repetitive
– A player has no more chip to move
– An opponent’s chip is cornered
• The remaining chip or chips of the players are to be added to
their respective scores. If the remaining chip is a “dama”, then
its score is also doubled.
• The player with the greater accumulated total score wins the
game.
 Other Applications
• Counting Numbers: Countess Damath
• Whole Numbers: Damath-in-a-Whole
• Integers: Damath the Teeny Integer
• Decimals: Busy Deci Damath
• Fractions: Damath Over U
• Prime Numbers: Damath the Old Prime Madonna
• Fibonacci Sequence: Damath the Fibo Nutty Lady
• Binary Numbers: Byte-a-Damath
• Modulo 12: Damath a la Mod
• Trigonometric Functions: Trig-a-Damath
• Scientific Notations: Sci-No-Damath
• Logarithmic Functions: Log-a-Damath
 Useful Websites
• Online game http://download.cnet.com/Damath/3000-18516_4-
10911683.html

• Damath complete notes

http://cnhsec.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/7/7/217748/damath_notes.pdf