Game Profile:

Game Title: Party 8 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Genre: Strategy Grades: K-5 Peripherals Required: 1- 4 Remotes Peripherals Optional: None Number of Players: 1- 4 Multiplayer (1 at a time)

Game Summary:

Mario Party 8 takes the social, strategic game play of board games and adds breaks for quick, action-oriented mini-games. In the main mode, players travel across six boards in search of stars, landing on spaces that are helpful (example: giving coins) or a hindrance (example: sending in to mess with the player). Several variations for these boards tweak the main goals to enhance game play for solo sessions, two-player games and three-to-four-player games. Players take turns rolling dice and moving across the game board, with the goal being to amass as many stars as possible within the allotted turn limit. The goal of 8 is to gather stars, but each board requires one to do that in a different way.

Alignment to AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner:

3.4.1 Assess the processes by which learning was achieved in order to revise strategies and learn more effectively in the future. 4.3.1 Participate in the social exchange of ideas and strategies when playing Mario Party 8.

Alignment to NYS Learning Standards:

Mathematics Reasoning Strand 1D- Students use logical reasoning to reach simple conclusions when advancing on the game board. Mathematics Operations Strand 3C- Students know single digit addition and subtraction facts in order to successfully advance on the game board to defeat the game’s engine. Mathematics Uncertainty Strand 6H- Students determine probabilities of simple events in order to succeed in moving along game board.

Possible Curriculum Connections:

Mathematics / Mathematical Reasoning Strand / Operations Strand

OCM BOCES SLS/August 2009