Cash and Crumbs, based on John Harper's Blades in the Dark.

Main Idea: Welcome to the Big Mixing Bowl, a city of math, baking, and crime. Inspired by a combination of noir detective fiction, the gangster spoof Bugsy Malone (1976), and Maurice Sendak’s book In the Night Kitchen (1970), in Cash and Crumbs players are street level Bakers in a land where you can make anything if you have enough Dough. Using modified Forged in the Dark rules, the Bakers wield their baked goods to solve mysteries and earn the ingredients and recipes they need to combine to create bigger and better items. Beware though! The Mixing Bowl is a dangerous city, and when the milk starts to fly it is easy to get creamed. Target Audience: Grades 6-8 Learning Objectives: CC.2.1.7.D.1 Analyze proportional relationships and use them to model and solve real-world and mathematical problems. CC.2.1.7.E.1 Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to operations with rational numbers.

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