Each unit includes key ideas and questions, correlations to Common Core State Standards, preassessments, learning targets, a vocabulary list, a study guide handout, a vocabulary choice board, and activities for groups and individuals at three different levels of readiness consisting of checkerboard puzzles,
tic-tac-toe boards, exit slips, hexagon puzzles, agendas, structured academic controversy discussions, writing activities, TriMind activities, and think dots, as well as a projects, grading rubrics, and answer keys.
Conley makes the somewhat startling claim that one-letter X is used more often than any letter, but he includes such uses as the signature of an illiterate, a spot on a map where pirate treasure is buried,
tic-tac-toe entries, marks on a ballot, multiple-choice test responses, multiplication signs, sign-here x's on a contract, and even kisses at the end of a letter!
Topics covered include the upward extension of Pascal's triangle, a recurrence relation for powers of Fibonacci numbers, ways to make change for a million dollars, integer triangles, the probability of a perfect bridge hand, higher-dimensional
tic-tac-toe, animal achievement and avoidance games, and an algorithm for solving Sudoku puzzles and polycube packing problems.
He also taught it to play noughts and crosses or
tic-tac-toe as it's known in America.
Why don't you try a game of hopscotch or
tic-tac-toe with your pretty new pebbles?
Watkins played his part in an amazing
tic-tac-toe goal of precision one-time passing on Saturday.
How many games of
tic-tac-toe do you figure you've played in your lifetime?
They included pieces that incorporate artglass, resin castings and wrought iron, in such styles as a magnetic
tic-tac-toe board, oversize rusty coils, Japanese minimalist tree, and many others.
Chess was often the chosen battleground, though much simpler games such as
tic-tac-toe served as handy programming exercises.
Activities in the counting book include making a set of dominoes as well as creating a variety of addition games using spinners,
tic-tac-toe boards, clock faces, and so on.
Westphal, a gifted education consultant and former teacher, shows teachers how differentiate social studies instruction and provide high-ability students in grades six through eight with choices using menus based on Bloom's revised taxonomy:
tic-tac-toe, list, meal, 20-50-80, baseball, and game show menus, and free choice.