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As a child, I would marvel at the pictures of the 9 planets and the sun and dream of becoming an astronaut.dThe astronaut thing didn’t work out but the love of astronomy never went away. When I was in 5th grade, Mr. Cunningham gave me a revelation: all of the pictures of the solar system were completely inaccurate regarding relative size and distance.

After introducing the children to exponents with the Target Number and 24 Game over the last three weeks, we entered into the most exciting powers in math: Powers of Ten.

How would you arrange all four of the same digits (such as 1 1 1 1 or 2 2 2 2 or 3 3 3 3 ... 9 9 9 9) so they will equal the numbers 0-10? 

The 24 Game is an arithmetical card game in which the objective is to find a way to manipulate four 

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My favorite math game by far is Target Number. I have modified the rules to make it more interesting and challenging.