NUMERIA GAME · RATIONAL & IRRATIONAL NUMBERS

Dungeon Crawl: Free General O

Rational and Irrational Numbers Team Review Game

A team review game you run from the front of the room. General O is trapped, and teams have to crack the dungeon to free him.

Screenshot of Dungeon Crawl: Free General O
Dungeon Crawl: Free General O in Numeria. Screens show sample students.
Grades
Grade 8 (and accelerated 7th)
Math
Rational and irrational numbers
Format
Teams, run from the projector
Time
30–45 minutes
Runs on
Any browser — Chromebooks and projectors
WHAT STUDENTS DO

How the game plays

  • Teams pick rooms off the board and solve to earn points — but some rooms aren't empty.
  • You run the board on the projector and keep score.
  • At the end, you pay out XP to the whole class.
THE MATH

Skills covered

  • Classifying rational and irrational numbers
  • Square roots and cube roots
  • Estimating irrational numbers
  • Comparing and ordering real numbers
NC STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY
NC.8.NS.1NC.8.NS.2NC.8.EE.2

Built-in questions follow the NC Standard Course of Study. You can upload your own question banks for any state's standards.

IN YOUR CLASSROOM

How to run it

  1. Put it on the projector

    Open the game board from the Teacher Portal on your projector or smartboard.

  2. Form teams

    Split the class into teams with whiteboards. The board supports several teams at once.

  3. Play the board

    Teams pick rooms and solve together. You check answers and award points as you go.

  4. Pay out XP

    End the game and award XP to the class leaderboard in one step.

FOR TEACHERS · FREE 30-DAY TRIAL

Try Dungeon Crawl: Free General O with your class

Dungeon Crawl: Free General O is one of 19 games and labs in Numeria. A free trial unlocks all of them, plus the Teacher Portal, login cards, one class leaderboard, and the slides, guides and activities that come with every game.

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Up to 6 class periods, 40 students each. Each request is approved by hand, usually within a day.

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