TDT # 550 - Games that teach Mathematics

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we review Oh My Goods, Steamrollers, Dungeon Rush, and Seikatsu. We dare to disagree with Geoff, interview the always talkative Stephen Buonocore from Stronghold Games, and hear a chilling tale of horror. Finally, we talk about ten great games to teach math!

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you. Thank you for your support.
0:05.0	And by Cool Stuff Inc. Cool Stuff in stock at coolstuff Inc.
0:10.0	The Dice Tower, episode 550.
0:13.8	Math, Mathity Math. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about Board Games and Card Games and especially the people who play them.
0:40.0	On today's show, Jeff asks why we don't have many characters in board gaming, to which we
0:46.0	respond with Stephen Bonacor, asking him about the state of the industry and how he deals
0:51.2	with so many games on his schedule.
0:53.0	Plus we have more questions from the mail bag and the voicemail,
0:56.0	a tale of board gaming horror,
0:58.0	and we begin our new educational series
1:01.0	with our top 10 games that teach math.
1:03.0	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host,
1:06.0	The Archimedes to My Pythagoras,
1:08.0	Tom Vassal.
1:10.0	I highly disagree with you.
1:11.0	Really?
1:12.0	I want to be Pythagoras I'm sorry the Pythagorean
1:15.8	theorem I love it a's proposed b's great goes c squared I love it back off you know what
1:21.2	Pythagoras guy I probably should have saved Archimedes for for
1:24.8	Suzanne anyway because Archimedes is a big fan of pie.
1:29.8	Eh? Math joke? No. Math joke. No. Math joke. No.
1:33.0	Math joke.
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