Monday, November 4, 2013

Multiples with Pokemon

In the Pokemon games, your creature grows each time it beats another pokemon.  You can get some number of effort values from the victory.  So if you have a pikachu and it beats a charmander, you will get 2 attack effort values or EVs.  You can get up to 252 EVs before your pokemon is fully grown. How many charmanders will you need to defeat?

Now imagine your pikachu is infected with a virus that doubles her growth rate. How many charmanders will you need to defeat now?



Lucky for many trainers, the developers of Pokemon, Game Freak, also developed tools pokemon can hold that quadruple their growth rate when being held. If your pikachu holds this item and has the growth virus, how many charmanders would you then need to defeat?



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2 comments:

  1. David KennedyNovember 20, 2013 at 11:17 AM

    Jon, this seems like a great way to get kids interested in the math they see around them. Plenty of kids are into video games, so this could get them engaged (though I don't know how popular Pokemon is these days). Either way, I think that you've done a good job of making a blog that the students will actually at least somewhat enjoy, which is a success in terms of assigned schoolwork.

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  2. Brian NgambiNovember 24, 2013 at 7:03 PM

    This entire blog is very informative and quite pleasing to the eye. Anytime you add pokemon into the equation - people will be curious. Definitely one of the best blogs I've seen from the class, gotta steal some of your ideas!

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