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FreeThrows: Math Game Transforming Learning in Arizona Schools
FreeThrows gets students to complete practice drills in the fundamental skills of math. The students do not compete against each other or against other teams. The entire class plays toward the goal of scoring enough points together to raise the game to a higher level and a higher degree of accuracy. Students are permitted to [...]
Continue reading...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math Educational App for Windows 8
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today launched Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math, the world’s first series of education apps designed with all new features exclusively for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system. via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Releases Carmen Sandiego Adventures in Math Educational App for Windows 8 – Business Wire – SunHerald.com.
Continue reading...Japanese Ladder Games for Combinatorics
Friday, July 15, 2011
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Three fascinating games from Steven T. Dougherty and Jennifer Franko Vasquez at The University of Scranton appear as “Ladder Games” in MAA Focus, June-July 2011. Mathematicians will enjoy the group theory and combinatorics used to explain the way the games work, while their students will have fun with these games as an intuitive introduction to the [...]
Continue reading...NUI-Torcs for Numerical Methods
Friday, July 15, 2011
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NIU-Torcs is a rare example of a college-level mathematics game that allows for deeper learning within the game. Brianno Coller and colleagues developed the game through an NSF grant to help their mechanical engineering students learn numerical methods (Coller & Scott 2009). Students begin the game by learning how to code acceleration and steering using [...]
Continue reading...Ko’s Journey
Friday, July 15, 2011
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Ko’s Journey is a math game for middle schoolers. In it, players follow the adventures of a girl who has been separated from her family and must travel across the wilderness. Along the way, she must solve problems using mathematics, including finding the correct proportion of medicinal plants to save a wolf cub, and the [...]
Continue reading...Test Review Jeopardy
Friday, July 15, 2011
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One of the easiest ways to incorporate games into teaching is to use Jeopardy. I have used it to liven up test reviews in courses as disparate as calculus and remedial arithmetic. Free templates for the game can be gotten by searching “PowerPoint Jeopardy Template.” You can then enter questions and answers into the template. [...]
Continue reading...The Spread of a Virus/Rumor
Friday, July 15, 2011
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This game introduces students to the concept of exponential growth. It can be played as the spread of a rumor, or the spread of a virus, and works well in an algebra or modeling course, in a quantitative reasoning course, or a liberal arts mathematics class. Each student gets a card, labeled “Round 0 ____, [...]
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