Second Grade Addition Facts on Bowling Games
For second-graders, bowling is an activity that "kills two birds with one stone." Not only does it provide a fun activity and a moderate degree of exercise, it also can serve as a great math lesson. Scoring bowling games requires the kind of addition lessons that are taught in second grade, and it provides a fun way for youngsters to practice these skills.
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Second-grade Math
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Scoring a bowling game requires addition skills, and the knowledge that is required coincides closely to what is taught in second-grade math classes. According to AAA Math, second-grade math lessons include addition, addition with three numbers, adding tens, adding mentally and with a calculator and adding hundreds. All these lessons, and more, can be applied when scoring bowling.
Getting Started
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Standard bowling games include 10 frames. In each frame, the goal is to knock down all 10 pins in front of you. In the first through ninth frames, bowlers get two opportunities to knock the pins down. After the first shot, write down the number of pins the bowler knocked down in the left-hand box on the top right corner of the first frame box. After the second shot do the same in the small box directly to the right of where you put the first score. Then add the two numbers together and put the result in the bigger box that extends around the two smaller boxes. For example if the bowler knocks down three pins on the first shot and five on the second, you would write "8" in the bigger box.
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Adding Frames Together
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Now repeat this process for the second frame. This time, add the numbers together in the two smaller boxes and then add that number to the score from the first frame. Continuing the above example, let's say the bowler knocked down five and then four pins in the second frame. Adding five and four makes nine, and then you'd add nine to the score of eight from the first frame. That adds up to 17, which you'd write in the second frame box. Remember that after the first frame the scores that go into the bigger box in each frame are the cumulative score for the entire game rather than the score for that one frame.
Spares
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The scoring gets a little more complicated when you roll a spare, which means that you knock down all 10 pins in exactly two shots in a single frame. In this case you write in the first small box the number that was knocked down in the first shot and then draw a diagonal dash (/) in the second small box. When rolling a spare you can't record the score in that frame until the first shot of the next frame. You get to add that first shot of the next frame to your score from the previous frame (10). So let's say you got a spare on the first frame. And then on the first shot of the second frame you scored a nine. You'd add nine to 10, giving you a score of 19 for the first frame. Enter that number into the first box.
Strikes
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A strike occurs when the bowler knocks down all 10 pins on the first shot of a frame. After this occurs mark an "X" in the first small box of that frame but don't write a score into the bigger box for that frame yet. After getting a strike the bowler doesn't roll a second ball for that frame. But he or she gets to add the score from the next two shots to the 10 already scored for the previous frame. So for example if the bowler scored a strike on the first shot, then another strike on the second shot, and then a nine on the third shot, you would add 10+10+9 to get the score for the first frame. That's 29, which would go into the first frame box.
Final Frame
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The 10th and final frame of a bowling game works a little differently than the previous nine. Here the bowler gets three shots if he or she knocks down all 10 pins on the first or second shot of that frame. If the bowler doesn't knock down all 10 in three shots you simply add the score for the first two shots to the score from the ninth frame to get your final score. If the bowler does knock down all 10 pins on the first or second shot, add the score for all three shots to the score from the previous frame to get your final score. Because 30 is the perfect score for each frame (three strikes in a row), the perfect bowling score is 300.
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