Use games to provide a context for student learning Numeracy Focus: Understanding and using geometric properties and spatial reasoning.
If a player gets a hit, she puts an X on the coordinate that she specified on her “aiming” graph.Players take turns calling out an ordered pair where they think one of her opponent’s ships are located.
The player who destroys the totality of their opponents fleet wins the game. (For a harder version of the game, players can put the battleships diagonally as well.) They then draw a highlighted line over the row of dots to represent the ship. Two players challenge each other by using a 10×10 grid in virtual Battleship. To make a battleship, the players simply use pens to draw dots in a line, either vertical or horizontal, on the graph. Each player should take one graph and create five different “battleships” on it – one made from two dots, two made from three dots, one made from four dots, and one made from five dots.One will be the “home” graph, and the other graph will be for “aiming.” Place a divider between the two players so that they cannot see each other’s graphs. You can customize the worksheets choosing the number of problems, workspace, border around the problems, and more. Label the number of lines for the X-axis and Y-axis on the graphs. Children will love this interactive battleship game with coordinates, complete with exciting illustrations of piratesThe game uses the traditional concept of the game battleship to support children in identifying letters and numbers, as well as their ability to follow simple instructions from their opponent. Students either plot points, tell the coordinates of points, plot shapes from points, reflect shapes in the x or y-axis, or move (translate) them up, down, left, or right.Each quadrant on the graphs should be 5 X 5 boxes. Draw an X-axis and a Y-axis directly down the center of each paper so that the four graphs each have four equal quadrants.Each square should cover exactly 10 X 10 boxes. Instructions for the Battleship Game: Give each student a Battleship board. Usually this is played in groups of two students. Draw a square on each of the four pieces of graph paper. The places that these lines intersect are called coordinates. This game is similar to coordinate plane battleship where students pick points on the coordinate plane to place a few ships.