GeoMunchers

Introduction

GeoMunchers is an educational math game for the New York 4th grade curriculum based off the series of 80s Munchers video game series. The player is a pirate, who eats shapes and angles, while dodging dinosaurs. The idea is to provide kids with objectives to eat certain types of shapes and angles, teaching them the basics of Geometry in the process.

Sketch Up

• images from game

Objective

How to Play

• A player is given an objective and the player must eat all the symbols on the board that match up to that objective.

• Example - Eat all the acute angles. The player must eat all the acute angles on the board and will then advance to the next level.

• The player must dodge all enemies, in the case, dinosaurs. The dinosaurs seek to eat the player.

• Levels increase in difficulty by more intelligent dinosaur enemies

Lesson Taught

Students will learn basics of geometry, such as acute and obtuse angles and various shapes.