How to Play Value Pooling Game

Value Pooling Game is a pool table game that teaches the teen numbers as a ten and some ones.

What is Value Pooling Game?

Nine balls show the numbers 11 to 19, plus a white cue ball. Two ten frames in the middle show a number between 11 and 19. Use the cue ball to hit the ball that matches the ten frames. Keep going until all the balls are gone. Balls can be blocked by other balls or by the ten frames, so plan your shot.

How to play Value Pooling Game

Drag from the cue ball to aim and set power, then release.

Step by step

1. Count the dots on the two ten frames.
2. Find the ball with that number.
3. Aim the cue ball at it and shoot.
4. Repeat until the table is clear.

Strategy tips to play better

• A full ten frame is 10, so count only the dots in the second frame and add them to 10.
• If the target ball is blocked, bank the cue ball off a cushion.
• Use softer shots near the target so you do not knock other balls around.

What kids learn

• Teen numbers 11 to 19
• Place value
• Ten frames
• Angles

For parents and teachers

Matches the grade 1 standard of understanding 11 to 19 as a ten and some ones (CCSS 1.NBT.B.2.B).

Rules & goal

Grade 1 » Number & Operations in Base Ten

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2.B

Understand place value: The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.