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User Submitted Equate: The Equation Thinking Game ReviewsDate: 2008-12-06 LOVE THIS GAME! My third graders love this game. The directions were easy to use and my students are also eager to play! A great purchase. Date: 2008-07-30 Daughter and her dad love it! Our 12 year old daughter and her dad enjoy playing this together. They're "mathies" of course. The game adds on as kids develop math skills as well. Date: 2008-01-07 Math Fun I hate math, but this game is fun. I remember improving my spelling and vocabulary with Scrabble. I was hoping this would do the same with math for my daughter. So far, so good. It's given my daughter great self-confidence in Math. She was doing division with fractions in the game, which she hasn't learned yet in school. Only complaint:The tiles are cardboard and thin. Easy to lose, but they come in a ziploc type bag. Date: 2008-01-01 Equate For those who like Scrabble and like math, this is the game. My son wants to play it all the time. The biggest set back is, as the directions state, it is a very long game. We haven't actually finished one yet. The directions mention that a game played by inexperienced Equate players can easily take 2-4 hours. Those players with experience actually take long as they make the equations much more complicated. I think I would have started off with the junior tiles even though my 4th grader is classified as a 6th+ in math and my spouse and I have very strong math backgrounds. Date: 2007-12-28 Great idea, but We played the game with gifted kids and adults age 9-40-plus and were surprised to find the kids were able to hold their own. But, like scrabble, the turns take forever! And, the scrabble concept doesn't really work well with the operators (=.+,-); too soon you run out of space on the sides as equations are much longer than words. You can't put two equations as close as two words and so there is much less opportunity for creativity in placing your pieces (e.g. you cannot make two equations in two directions; sometimes there are only one or two locations where it is possible to add an equation). We were getting scores of 10-30 points per turn, then one person added the following to an existing equation "0 X 34567 5/6 +." By hitting a triple equation score and got more than 270 points on one hand thereby effectively ending the game that had been relatively even. It seemed unfair even to him! Great idea flawed by long waits and poor design; unlikely to play it twice. C
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