The Dama

Sometimes, when we  hear the word Dama, we pertain to a lady or a queen specially the foreigners, because Dama for them are ladies, etc. But here in our country, when we talked about Dama, we know that it's all about board game that we used to play when we're having our past time with our friends, we had fun playing this game. But originally, Dama was a famous traditional board game here in the Philippines, this game is played with the use of a wooden board and a bottle caps or stones. In just simple things like that we can now play Dama. Dama are not just played here in the Philippines, even in other countries they play the same board game but they called it as "checkers". But in Philippines and America they called it dama.

How to play Dama:
This game is played by two people, each player must have 12 "pitsas"(pieces in dama) made from bamboo, stones or bottle caps. They move point to point and like the game chess, once your pitsas capture, the game will ends. Pitsas can move diagonally only, they cannot eat or capture backwards.

As time goes by, Dama became damath here in the Philippines. A combination of dama and mathematics, the game is played with mathematical operations and became a popular school activity, and start to have a tournament in Damath.
Today, again it evolves to Sci-damath, accombination of Dama, mathematics and scientific operations. Now, in school activities Sci-damath became difficult because every turns and move, a player must answer or solve a particular operations needed before you win.
But originally,  Dama can't take place by any other games because it's always the best for just a simple game while taking a rest.