Tag: Gamification

Split illustration comparing two types of math games: on the left, a math question is removed while the game world remains intact; on the right, mathematical structures are removed and the game itself collapses.

What Happens If We Remove Mathematics?

Written by Chris Hogbin on . Posted in Learn & Develop, Uncategorized.

A simple test for whether the math is really part of the game What happens if we remove the mathematics from a math game? Not permanently, just long enough to see what remains. It’s a genuinely interesting question, not a loaded one. Some of the most popular math products in the world have done something remarkable: they have made children want to do more mathematics than they might ever choose to do on their own. That is worth sitting with before anything else. But wanting to play and wanting to do mathematics aren’t always the same want. Sometimes they point in the same...

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Game Based Learning V Gamification

Written by Chris Hogbin on . Posted in Learn & Develop.

In the great debate on game based learning v gamification, people often ask me what is the best approach, when you’re trying to create true student engagement, and motivate kids to drive their own learning? Pic: A fun game of Battleships, or a lesson in coordinate geometry? Game-based learning v gamification, the facts How is it that my kids know all 150 types of blocks in Minecraft, but can’t remember a simple list given for homework? Let’s imagine a teacher was trying to teach these Minecraft blocks to a class. In a traditional method, the teacher gives the list, gets...

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