Dividing numbers by 100 math game | Dragon fight
Learning and practicing placing value might be a building block key to many other math concepts taught in middle and upper grades. Place value is the base for the advanced division so when students divide various whole numbers and decimals by 100 their understanding of place value and the way to maneuver the decimal or the place of the digits during the division process is vital to being successful.
So in Dividing by hundred the game, the students are given several division problems where they get the chance to practice dividing by 100 or watching a quotient and finding where the quotient came from originally, given one among the divisors.
Each screen poses a division problem with 4 choices, followed by a screen that shows a particular situation between a colorful bird and a breathing dragon. The dragon is just trying to cook his dinner and the hungry bird keeps swooping right down to take a bite. When correct answers are given, the dragon fends off the bird and protect his feast. But when incorrect answers are given, the bird is in a position to sneak a bite.