If the answer is incorrect, you are out of the running for the million dollars and take no more turns. You keep any $1,000 tokens you previously won. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) Remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard, and remove your money marker from the money gameboard. The player whose answer you copied doesn't collect a $1,000 token.

For 2 to 4 players

ACES 8+
Save If your answer is incorrect (including a peek or a copy), you have one opportunity during the game to "save yourself."
Place the Save pawn in front of any other player. That player then reveals his1 her answer. If that player is correct, move your money marker up to the next level and continue with your turn. The player who saved you collects a $1,000 token. If that player is incorrect, you are out of the running for the million dollars and take no more turns. You keep any $1,000 tokens you previously won. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) Remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard, and remove your money marker from the money gameboard. The player whose answer you copied doesn't collect a $1,000 token.
The Millior~~Dollar Question
If you successfully answer all 10 grade school questions, you may try for the one million dollars! Select the top card from the Million Dollar card deck and insert it into the magic reader. Read the question aloud and then give your answer. You cannot get help from any other player. If you answered correctly, the game is over - you are the winner! If you answer incorrectly, you are out of \he running for the million dollars and take no more turns. You keep any $1,000 tokens you previously won. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) Remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard, and remove your money marker from the money gameboard.

Contents

300 Question Cards Card Reader Sleeve 2 Cameboards 4 Money Marker Pawns 10 Grade Markers 1 "Peek" Pawn 1 "Copy" Pawn 1 "Save" Pawn 12 $1,000 Tokens Pad and Pencils Card Tray

Winning the Came

Be first to win a million dollars! If no player reaches the Million Dollar level, the player with the most money wins the game.

Object

Answer 11 grade school questions correctly. Prove that you are smarter than a 5th grader and win one million dollars!

The First Time You Play

1. Remove the gameboards, the $1,000 tokens and the grade markers from the large cardboard sheet. Remove the 4 Money Marker Pawns, the Peek, Copy and Save pawns and the customizing template from the smaller parts sheet. Discard waste. 2. Remove the pencils from the bags. Discard bags. 3. Break off the eight clear pawns from the two plastic runners. Discard the runners. 4. Insert the four money marker pawns and the Peek, Copy and Save pawns into the clear pawns. You may use the customizing template to personalize these pawns by using it to cut out personal photos and placing them behind these three pawns. Snap the frames together to close the pawns. Note: You can remove the backs of the clear pawns by slightly bending the pawn till the bottom of the door pops out.
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1. Place the money gameboard and the grade gameboard in front of you and any other players. 2. Each player chooses a money marker pawn and places it by the money gameboard. Place the Peek, Copy and Save pawns next to the gameboards. 3. Place the card reader sleeve, the 10 grade markers and the $1,000 tokens next to the gameboards. 4. Separate the deck of question cards into 6 decks: one each for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade, and Million Dollar. Place each deck into a section of the plastic tray.
2. Your turn continues. Choose another question card. Continue as described previously for every correctly answered question card by moving the money marker up one level on the money gameboard, taking the completed card and placing the grade marker over the matching grade space on the grade gameboard. You may choose a question card from grades 1 through 5, but you cannot choose more than 2 from any one deck during the game.

Incorrect Answer 1. If your answer is incorrect, you are out the running for the million dollars and take
no more turns. You keep any $1,000 tokens you previously won. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) 2. Remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard, and remove your money marker from the money gameboard. Play continues with the next player. NOTE: Once you surpass the $25,000 level, you are guaranteed $25,000 even if you answer incorrectly. After reading a question card - but before revealing the correct answer - you may choose to quit and take any winnings you have up to that point. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) Leave your money marker pawn on the money gameboard where it is but remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard. At the end of the game players will tally their earnings to determine the winner of the game. However, right now you must announce to everyone: "I am NOT smarter than a 5th grader!"

Introduction

You goal is to correctly answer 10 questions (2 from each grade level), and then correctly answer one Million Dollar question. Each question is based on material from actual 1s t - 5th grade curricula.
There are two ways to win money! Answer questions correctly on your turn. Answer questions correctly when another player asks you for help.

Take the Money and Run!

Cameplay
Select a player to go first. Came play continues in a clockwise direction as each player takes a turn.

On Your Turn

1. Take the top card from any 1st through 5th grade deck you'd like as long as that grade is not yet covered up on the grade gameboard. The heading on top of the card indicates the subject. 2. Slide the card into the card reader sleeve a shown. The question s will be revealed in the red reader window. Read the question aloud to all players. 1 3. All players write down their answer on their own piece of paper. You then do one of two things: If you feel confident that you know the answer - tell everyone your answer. Then reveal the correct answer by pulling the card through the top of the card reader until the answer is revealed in the red window. If you are not sure of the answer - you may choose to peek or copy another player's answer as described in the Peek or Copy section below.

Peek or Copy

If you are unsure of an answer, you have one opportunity during the game to peek at another player's answer, and one opportunity to copy another player's answer.
lfyou choose to peek - place the Peek pawn in front of the player with the answer you want to peek at. After peeking, you do not have to use that player's answer. You may still decide for yourself. If your answer is the same as the other player's answer, and your answer is correct, move your money marker up to the next level and continue with your turn. The player whose answer you peeked at collects a $1,000 token. If your answer is different than the other player's answer, and your answer is correct, move your money marker up to the next level and continue with your turn. The player whose answer you peeked at doesn't collect a $1,000 token. If your answer is incorrect, but the other player's answer is correct, you are out the running for the million dollars and take no more turns. You keep any $1,000 tokens you previously won. (You still help other players if asked, and may earn money that way.) Remove the grade markers from the grade gameboard, and remove your money marker from the money gameboard. The player whose answer you peeked at collects a $1,000 token. Play continues with the next player.

Correct Answer

1. If your answer is correct, keep the card and place the grade marker over the matching grade space on the grade gameboard as shown. Then dace the money mark'er on j the $1,000 space of the money ! gameboard as shown.
Ifyou choose to copy- place the Copy pawn in front of the player with the answer you want to copy. You must use that answer. If the answer is correct, move your money marker up to the next level and continue with your turn. The player whose answer you copied collects a $1,000 token.

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IN THE NEWS:

The following ran Sunday, April 29th in the NC newspaper, The Charlotte Observer:
Asking The Wrong Questions From Dr. Mel Levine, co-founder and co-chair, and Mary-Dean Barringer, CEO,
of the Chapel Hill-based All Kinds of Minds Institute:
Perhaps you've seen the new TV show, "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" The show is fun, and its high ratings speak to its appeal, but it misses the point about the science of learning. We've devoted our lives to working with parents and teachers to understand, identify and address differences in learning to help all students succeed in school and in life. Our work is based on clinical experience and research from the National Academy of Sciences series, "How People Learn." So while we laugh when we see this program highlight an adult's inability to remember seemingly easy questions from their elementary school days, it's off the mark in terms of what we really know about intelligence. Even worse, if the adult is stumped, he or she can ask a panel of youngsters for their answers. The host sometimes says, "How can you be a computer professional and not know how many sides a trapezoid has? These kids know it." They even flash up the adult's college grade point average! This show perpetuates the myth that success in life is based on how much a person can memorize and recall on the spot. In real life, it's perfectly reasonable not to expect the ablest of professionals to be able to instantly bring up obscure facts from lessons taught decades ago. Furthermore, it's the affinities in life that we think are most important to celebrate. Affinities must be fed so they develop into passions and those passions become zones of expertise. In fact, one of the best ways for young people to learn to read is to have them read something they know a lot about in a content area. After observing a large number of students, we are convinced that many students who appear to have significant learning problems in reality have highly specialized minds -- brains that were never designed to be well rounded. We share with teachers in our professional development program that we'd like every kid to become an expert on something and accumulate more knowledge and insight on particular topics than anyone else in the immediate vicinity. Our program helps teachers understand how the brain is "wired," various ways that students learn, patterns of students' differences in learning and how students' passions and strengths can be used to overcome weaknesses within the classroom. Everyone has a profile that is based on neurodevelopmental constructs. These eight constructs are: attention, memory, language, neuromotor function, spatial ordering, temporal-sequential ordering, higher order cognition and social cognition. When a student has difficulty with a particular academic skill, the task of parents, teachers and clinicians is to pinpoint the areas of difficulty, to specify the weak sub-skills, and to create a plan for strengthening strengths and areas in need of improvement. Such a discussion may not be as entertaining as watching a quiz show. But these are important things to keep in mind if you're trying to figure out if you should be bothered that a 5th grader seems to know more than you do.