DAMATH
Alma C. Te
SPED 503 – Strategy Share
3/13/12
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
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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:
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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
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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
Let’s Play It!
Useful Websites
• Online game http://download.cnet.com/Damath/3000-18516_410911683.html
• Damath complete notes
http://cnhsec.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/7/7/217748/damath_notes.pdf