Remember: A pretend game lets you practice spreading and swinging, with nothing real at stake. It cannot tell the future or promise a gain.
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Garden Market at the fairAt the Pebble Hill fair, Maya and Cy built a board game called Garden Market, and every coin in it was pretend. The board had six gardens: Oak, Pine, Berry, Mint, Fern and Rose. Each player started with sixty pretend coins, as six tokens of ten. Each round someone flipped a weather card that said how every garden did. The weather was made up, so nobody's coins could be hurt. Maya put one token in each garden, but Cy stacked all six on Berry. In round one, Berry did great: ten became sixteen! Rose made thirteen, Oak twelve, Pine eleven and Fern ten, but Mint dipped to nine. So Maya's six tokens were worth seventy-one and Cy's ninety-six. In round two a buggy summer hit Berry, and ten dropped to eight. Oak leapt to fourteen, Rose to fifteen, and Pine and Mint to twelve. Now Cy's six tokens were worth only forty-eight, but Maya's six were worth seventy-one again. A game board is not a real market, and its weather cards are paper.
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Each player starts with 6 tokens of 10 coins. Each coin below is one token. That is coins.
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Look at the table. Which garden dips below 10 in round one?
RoseMintOak
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Cy stacks all six tokens on Berry. In round one each token is worth 16, so Cy has 6 × 16 = .
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Maya has one token in each garden: 12, 11, 16, 9, 10 and 13. Add them: .
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After round one Cy has 96 and Maya has 71. Cy leads by .
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Fern dips below ten in round one.
TrueFalse
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Round two: Berry drops from 16 to 8. Cy's six tokens are now worth 6 × 8 = .
Order, think and fix
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Number the steps of a round.
Change each garden's worth
Count your pile
Think about what happened
Flip the weather card
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Round two, Maya's six tokens: 14, 12, 8, 12, 10 and 15. Add them: .
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Look at the bars. After round two, who is ahead?
MayaCyThey are level
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Cy's pile went from 96 to 48. Maya's stayed at 71. What kept Maya's pile steadier?
She had more coinsShe picked BerryShe spread her tokens over six gardens
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Cy says: Berry won round one, so Berry will win round two. Is Cy right?
YesNo
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Stretch: circle each thing a pretend game can do.
Let us practice thinkingTell us what will happen next weekPromise a gainLet us practice spreading and swinging with nothing real at stakeShow us a real market
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Write one thing the game can practice and one thing it cannot do.
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Draw Maya's six tokens, one in each garden.
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Answer key · Set A
Practice investing with pretend
160 6 tokens of 10 is 60 coins.
2Mint Mint dips to 9. Fern stays at 10, and the rest go up.
396 6 × 16 = 96.
471 12 + 11 + 16 + 9 + 10 + 13 = 71.
525 96 − 71 = 25.
6False Fern stayed at ten and never dipped below.
748 6 × 8 = 48.
82, 3, 4, 1 Flip the card first, change the gardens, then count, and last think about what the round showed.
971 14 + 12 + 8 + 12 + 10 + 15 = 71.
10Maya Maya has 71 and Cy has 48, so Maya is ahead after round two.
11She spread her tokens over six gardens Maya's pile stayed close to 71 because spreading steadied it.
12No In round two Berry dropped from 16 to 8. Nobody can flip a card to see tomorrow.
13Let us practice thinking, Let us practice spreading and swinging with nothing real at stake A game can practice thinking, and nothing more. It cannot tell the future or promise a gain.
14Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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