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Game: PONG

Aim: Break the bricks, score points

Method:
Use your mouse or tap in the white bar to move the paddle horizontally to bounce the ball up the screen. Answer questions when you break the white bricks, score big points with the yellow bricks.

Your final score is based on correct answers, bricks broken and time taken.

Total cost: 2 items
      
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PONG game to practice
'Total cost: 2 items' for 3rd grade

Total cost of 2 items

Learn how to add money costs with this topic

When you buy things you need to know how much it will cost you so that you know if you have enough money to pay for them. So we use addition to calculate the TOTAL cost by adding up each item cost. Adding money is similar to adding any other numbers in math except you have to take care of converting from coins to notes.

For instance, if I went and bought 2 things at 90 cents each, what would the total cost of the items be?

90¢ + 90¢ = 180¢ = $1.80

So when the total goes over one dollar, we need to get an answer in both dollars and cents. So if we add 90 cents and 90 cents we have a total of 180 cents but we know that 100 cents is 1 dollar, so we have 1 dollar and a remainder of 80 cents.


Related topics:

With our Pong math game you will be practicing the topic "Total cost: 2 items" from 3rd grade / Addition / Word problems. The math in this game consists of 14 questions that ask you to use addition to find out the total cost of the 2 items.

Word problems: adding items and item costs

Learn how to add items and how to add the cost of multiple items

Topic titles:

  • Total number of items
  • Total cost of 2 items
  • Total cost of 3 items

Sometimes in math the problems are not given as numbers but as words and sentences. This doesn't mean that the math you have to do is different, but it does mean you have to work out first what the sum you are being asked to do is, and then work on the sum itself. In this set of topics, the questions are to do with adding up either the total number of items or the total cost of a set of 2 or 3 items.

When we want to understand math addition word problems, we need to read carefully through the text and create the sum that takes the number information out of the text and puts it in a sum. When we read the text "Logan has 30 Rich tea biscuits and 17 Digestives" we can see that the sum involves finding how many biscuits Logan has in total which we find by adding up the number of Rich tea biscuits and digestive biscuits. So the total number of biscuits is 30 + 17 which is 47.

When the sentences we are looking at involve money our addition sum will involve adding amounts of money rather than numbers of items. Given the text "Grace buys 3 pencils for 54¢, 64¢ and 75¢." we realise that we need to add the 3 amounts to come to the total that Grace has spent on pencils. Because that total is greater than 100¢, the answer will be in both dollars and cents. Can you work out what that amount will be? Try the topic "Total cost of 3 items" to check your answer.

This is our version of the classic early computer game "Breakout" (itself a development of the even earlier "Pong" game - we prefer that name) where a player controls a bar that knocks a ball or puck around the screen.

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In our version of Pong/Breakout, there are 3 types of bricks for you to break: green bricks are worth just 2 points; yellow bricks are worth a whopping 50 points; breaking white bricks, which are worth 10 points, wins you a math question from the topic you have chosen.

You start with 5 lives. If the ball goes below the paddle, you lose a life and 200 points. The game ends when you answer all 10 questions or lose all your lives.

Notes

  1. This version of Pong is a one player game to learn or revise math
  2. Our PONG for math is a scoring game - play a few times and set a personal best score!
  3. Addictive! You may end up trying to avoid the white bricks so that you can play for longer...
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How to play PONG to practice
'Total cost: 2 items' for 3rd grade

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  1. Select the PONG game from the games selection page.
  2. On the settings page there are brief instructions on how to play.
  3. Click on PLAY to enter the game screen.
  4. The clock starts when the bell rings.
  5. Move your mouse (or finger tap or drag in the white bar for touch screens) to move your paddle left and right.
  6. Knock the ball back up the screen to break the bricks.
  7. You start with 1000 points and 5 lives.
  8. You lose 1 point every 2 seconds.
  9. 200 points are deducted from your score for each life lost
  10. Green bricks score 2 point, yellow bricks score 50 points, white bricks score 10 points and open the question screen.
  11. For each question click/tap on the correct answer or enter it using the keyboard.
  12. Wrong answers lose you 25 points but correct answers win you 50 points.
  13. Continue breaking bricks and answering questions until you have cleared all the question bricks.
  14. The game also ends if you lose all 5 of your lives.
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