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Digital Games to Learn Digital Games to Learn Math Math Presenter: Dan Petrak Des Moines Area Community College Email: [email protected] Twitter handle: dgpetrak

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These are the slides I used for a Webinar on April 2nd, 2013. I make the claim that digital games are a great way to learn and practice math skills. As a game designer, I talk about the ideas of "flow", "desirable difficulty", and "Hard Fun" serious games can use to help students master content.

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  • 1. Digital Games to Learn MathPresenter: Dan PetrakDes Moines Area Community College Email: [email protected] Twitter handle: dgpetrak

2. What is a Game? 3. Is Math like a Game?Goals? Yes Rules? YesFeedback system? EventuallyVoluntary participation? Are you kidding me? 4. What are we missing?Engagement and Motivation! Image from www.bigfishgmes.com blog 5. Raph Koster A Theory of Fun 6. Flow 7. Learning within Flow Optimal Learning comes from Desirable Difficulty Students should be making errors if we want tooptimize learning Normally very uncomfortableThis is natural when playing games! 8. Digital Games provide Instant and non-threatening feedback Mentally Demanding Customized learning through leveling,challenge, and game mechanicsHard Fun! 9. Fun is the Feeling we get from learning in Flowhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2187892869/sizes/o/ 10. Why Digital Games for Math?Image from www.bigfishgmes.com blog 11. Games can help the diverse learners in our classrooms by Individualized and targeted instruction Remediation Optimized learning with Flow 12. Many math skills fit this model. 13. Experience 14. HypothesizeFeedback loop helps students construct understanding of the rules.We crave patterns and we want to fit our experiences into a schema. 15. Formalize and Practice We can help students formalizewhat they are experiencing. Games can also be used topractice the skills. Image by Lisa Haney 16. Ultimately what is our goal? Deep procedural understanding Deep conceptual understanding 17. Digital games can help students learn and practicemath in a fun and natural way!Motion Math:Conceptual FractionsFound in:iTunes App Store 18. Digital games can help students learn and practicemath in a fun and natural way!Algeburst:Simplify ExpressionsFound in:iTunes App Store 19. Digital games can help students learn and practicemath in a fun and natural way! Factor-tris: Factors of Whole Numbers Found at: HotMath.com 20. Digital games can help students learn and practicemath in a fun and natural way!Algeboats:Evaluate ExpressionsFound in:iTunes App Store 21. Digital games can help students learn and practicemath in a fun and natural way!Dragon Box:Solving EquationsFound in:iTunes App Store 22. To find other gamesMaria Andersens Bloghttp://busynessgirl.com/ 23. To learn more consider joining 24. edWeb enables you to 25. Let the Games Begin!