Changing the goal of the Numbers game

I conscripted the game Numbers and Letters seven years ago to help promote the Maths Learning Centre and the Writing Centre at university events like O'Week and Open Day. Ever since then, it has always bothered me how free and easy participation in the Letters game is, while the Numbers game is much less so. This Open Day I had a remarkable idea: instead of stating in the rules that the goal is to achieve the target, and trying to encourage people to take a different approach, what if I just changed the stated goal! I don't know why I didn't think of it before, to be honest!

You can read the rest of this blog post, and four other related posts, in PDF form here.

The titles of the five posts are:

• Numbers and Letters (2018)
• An opening gambit for the Numbers Game (2017)
• Changing the goal of the Numbers Game (2020)
• Jack Frost's centre (2015)
• The Arts student's maths brain (2017)