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Everyone knows games like Monopoly and The Game of Life, but few are aware of the vast world of complex, strategic, and fun board games that students will enter in this class. Each day, students will learn and play 1-3 (sometimes more!) fun and engaging board games that anyone can enjoy that will challenge and improve their analytical, algorithmic, heuristic, and social thinking skills. These board games will teach the students to cooperate, to adapt to new situations, to learn new rules, and to be a good sport. Playing board games also helps improve resilience, memory, social skills, focus, resource management, spatial reasoning, patience, respect, problem solving, and more, which are all invaluable skills for growing up. In this class, students will also learn some of the basic concepts of game theory. Each day of the class will focus on a different type of game: resource management games, deck building games, spatial reasoning games, cooperative games, and general strategy games with a unique blend of luck and skill. We will play each game multiple times so the students can develop and try out new strategies each time. Students will leave Newton’s Attic each day having had an instructive, social, and above all, fun experience learning and playing these fascinating games. "Playing board games are a joy-filled way for students to make friends and develop reasoning, perseverance, and social skills that are key to life." - Benjamin Braun, Professor of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
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