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Digital Games to Learn Math Presenter: Dan Petrak Des Moines Area Community College Email: [email protected] Twitter handle: dgpetrak
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Digital Games to Learn Math
Presenter: Dan PetrakDes Moines Area Community College
Email: [email protected] handle: dgpetrak
What is a Game?
Is Math like a Game?
Goals? Yes Rules? Yes
Feedback system? Eventually…
Voluntary participation? Are you kidding me?
What are we missing?
Engagement and Motivation!Image from www.bigfishgmes.com blog
Raph Koster – A Theory of Fun
Flow
Learning within Flow
Optimal Learning comes from Desirable Difficulty Students should be making errors if we want to
optimize learning Normally very uncomfortable
This is natural when playing games!
Digital Games provide…
• Instant and non-threatening feedback• Mentally Demanding• Customized learning through leveling,
challenge, and game mechanics
Hard Fun!
Fun is the Feeling we get from learning in Flow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2187892869/sizes/o/
Games can help the diverse learners in our classrooms by
Individualized and targeted instruction
Remediation
Optimized learning with Flow
Many math skills fit this model.
Experience
Hypothesize
Feedback loop helps students construct understanding of the rules.We crave patterns and we want to fit our experiences into a schema.
Formalize and Practice
• We can help students formalize what they are experiencing.
• Games can also be used to practice the skills.
Image by Lisa Haney
Ultimately what is our goal?
• Deep procedural understanding• Deep conceptual understanding
Digital games can help students learn and practice math in a fun and natural way!
Motion Math: Conceptual Fractions
Found in:iTunes App Store
Digital games can help students learn and practice math in a fun and natural way!
Algeburst: Simplify Expressions
Found in:iTunes App Store
Digital games can help students learn and practice math in a fun and natural way!
Factor-tris: Factors of Whole Numbers
Found at:HotMath.com
Digital games can help students learn and practice math in a fun and natural way!
Algeboats: Evaluate Expressions
Found in:iTunes App Store
Digital games can help students learn and practice math in a fun and natural way!
Dragon Box: Solving Equations
Found in:iTunes App Store
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