DAMATH

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CHECKERS Game
Damath
Polynomial 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
 HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
1. DAMATH BOARD

‘The Board’
the Sci-damaths board measures 32 cm x 32 cm with 8 x8
squares. It contains 24 chips in two colors ( 12 chips of each color).
Each chip measure 2 cm in diameter.
 HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
2. 24 CHIPS
 HOW TO PLAY DAMATH

Prepare the following:

3. SCORE SHEETS
 HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
4. CALCULATOR (optional)
 HOW TO PLAY DAMATH
Prepare the following:
5. ARBITER/teacher
 DAMATH Applications
• COUNTING DAMATHS
• WHOLE DAMATHS
• FRACTION DAMATHS
• INTEGER DAMATHS
• RATIONAL DAMATHS
• RADICAL DAMATHS
• POLYNOMIAL DAMATHS
• BINARY DAMATHS
 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 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.
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COUNTING
DAMATH
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WHOLE
DAMATHS
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FRACTION
DAMATHS
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INTEGER
DAMATHS
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RATIONAL
DAMATHS
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RADICAL
DAMATHS
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POLYNOMIAL
DAMATHS
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BINARY
DAMATHS