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Constellations
Play on the World's Largest Computer Screen To coincide with the Fifth International Congress on Mathematical Education, the Advertiser gives you the opportunity to play on the World's Largest Computer Screen ... the south face of the Grenfell Tower! From Friday, August 24 to Thursday, August 30, get on down to the Victoria Square fountain .... and play Constellations, the space age game! Constellations was invented by South Australian Special Education Teacher, Darryl Hemsley to help students with arithmetic and geometry. The Constellation game is based on the most well known magic number square in history. Sixteenth century German painter, Albrect Durer put the arrangement of numbers in a copperplate engraving entitled ''Melencholia," which represents a mathematician thinking. Constellations has been called a "space age noughts and crosses game" because it uses patterns of four instead of the usual rows of three in normal O's and X's. You've played O's and X's, haven't you? Players take turns to put their O's or X's in 3x3 grid and the first to get three in a row, column or diagonal wins! Example:
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