Students carefully place layers of cake onto a platform without toppling the entire cake. As students progress through this stacking game, there encounter narrower layers and faster movement.

• Grade Levels: all ages
• Skills Developed: timing, precision, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills
• Standards Addressed:
  Common Core Mathematical Practice - make sense of problems and persevere in solving them by adjusting timing and placement to build a stable cake, attend to precision by carefully placing each cake layer
  
• Classroom Use:
  Brain Break - the game's focus on precision and timing helps students take a fun and challenging mental break from academic tasks
  Reflection Activity - students reflect on their strategies for stacking cake layers and how they adapted their approach as the difficulty increased