Welcome to the Common Core Math Review Game.   This is not a comprehensive test of the assessment items but it will give you some good review practice for the Common Core Test.

There are two versions of the game:
(1) Travel through the 50 states of the U.S. while answering math questions and
(2) Travel through the schools in the Poudre School District while answering math questions

In either game, you must try to plan your journey so that you do not pass through a state
(or a school) a second time.   If you do, the game ends.

The computer will choose a random state (or school) in which you will start.   You will be told which directions you may travel.   There are eight directions: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Nortwest, Southeast, and Southwest.   You may use those words or just the abbreviations N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, and SW.   The only other commands that you can use in the game are: SAVE (to save the current game), LOAD (to load a previously saved game), SCORE (to see the score of your current game), HIGH (to view the high scores of all games that have been played on your computer), QUIT (to exit the current game), and HELP (to view these 22 commands).

A perfect score is 100.   You receive one point for each state (or school) that you visit and one point for each math question that you answer correctly.   It would be a good idea to have a map of the U.S. in front of you as you play (or a map of the Poudre Schools).   Both of these may be downloaded from the links above.



If you do not wish to play the game, you may use a different program and just answer the questions.   The questions are not selected randomly as in the games.

You must first download a zip file that contains the games and the data files (Select SAVE FILE).   When the zipped folder is downloaded to your computer, you must then extract the files and put them all in the same folder.   The easiest way to do this is to go to the downloads folder and double click on the core.zip folder (it should be the first item in the downloads list) and it will open the contents of the folder.   Then click on ALLQUEST.EXE (or any of the four EXE files) and it will display a message; select EXTRACT ALL, and specify the folder that you want them sent to.   If you have any difficulty with this process, email me at MATHPAGE@GMAIL.COM and I can just email the files to you instead.

Click here to download the Common Core Zip File to your computer.





Here is a list of all the files in the zipped folder called core.zip:

I. Programs for Common Core Math
      PARCC.EXE -- Common Core Game using the United States
      POUDRE.EXE -- Common Core Game using the Poudre Schools
      ALLQUEST.EXE -- No game; just practice the questions for the
            Common Core Math
      CHECKFIL.EXE -- Just allows the teacher to view all the
            questions in any of the math files

II. Files for the Common Core programs (must reside in the same folder as the programs)
      QALG.DAT -- 62 questions for Algebra I
      QGEOM.DAT -- 62 questions for Geometry
      QMATH3.DAT -- 63 questions for Grade 3
      QMATH4.DAT -- 68 questions for Grade 4
      QMATH5.DAT -- 66 questions for Grade 5
      QMATH6.DAT -- 62 questions for Grade 6
      QMATH7.DAT -- 62 questions for Grade 7
      QMATH8.DAT -- 65 questions for Grade 8

III. Maps to accompany the POUDRE.EXE Common Core program
      Poudre Schools 2.docx -- MS Word Document: A list of the Poudre
            Schools and a "map" of how they are connected
      map.pdf -- Adobe Acrobat pdf document with the actual map of the
            Poudre Schools and list of names of the schools

IV. Maps to accompany the PARCC.EXE Common Core program
      usmap.pdf -- Adobe Acrobat pdf file of a blank map of the U.S.
      usmap.jpg -- A jpg file of a blank map of the U.S. (horizontally)
      usmap3.jpg -- A jpg file of a map of the U.S. with abbreviations
      usmap4.jpg -- A jpg file of a blank map of the U.S. (vertically)
      usmap5.jpg -- A jpg file of a map of the U.S. with state names



Here are some additional resources for the Common Core Testing:

The PARCC Assessment Practice Tests
Engage NY State Test Questions
Poudre School District's Digital Math by Brad Avery
IXL Website -- ELA and Math Practice

Ohio Department of Education -- PARCC Math
IXL Common Core Standards
Teacher Help For Parents -- Common Core
Reading Sage -- PARCC Common Core Standards

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Colorado Measures of Academic Success: Science and Social Studies
The Journal -- PARCC Releases Sample Common Core Test Items
Common Core Online

PARCC Games