Students anticipate their opponents’ moves and devise long-term strategies to win, promoting logical reasoning and focus.

• Grade Levels: all ages
• Skills Developed: problem solving, spatial awareness, critical thinking, sequential reasoning, critical thinking, memory and recall, pattern recognition, and strategic planning
• Standards Addressed:
  Common Core Mathematical Practices - make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, look for and make use of structure.
  
• Classroom Use:
  Class Competition - encourage strategy development through friendly games
  Reflection Activity - students analyze games to improve strategies