Wii Bowling for errr… Math Purposes

Using the Wii I worked on my math skill along with my roll, both were quite rusty apparently.  My first game I didn't have a single spare or strike so the math was very simple, just adding a bunch of 7's and 6's for a grand total of 65. My second game, however, put together 5 strikes in a row and 3 spares, totaling a score of 200. I had a piece of paper covering where the score shows on the screen and looked away when the totals were shown on the screen after each frame. After remembering how to keep count in bowling I had no errors in my math. This would have been such a fun way to learn this kind of math back when I was in elementary school. It is engaging and definitely keeps the kids attention. There is definitely no boring parts and there are so many things you can do to make this lesson your own, turning it into a competition between two teams using both bowling skills and math skills as a way to score or creating a bunch of hypotheticals to see how they handle different "outcomes". This was an incredibly fun lesson and overall I think it could be very successful.