Creating authentic and engaging content to link to real life experiences can be extremely challenging in mathematics. This session highlights specific apps, websites and video games that can make mathematics fun for any student. Participants are encouraged to “play along” on their devices while connecting, sharing, and collaborating via Google Apps for Education.

Audience: Primary/Junior/Intermediate

Resources:

• Find Jeff on Twitter
• Jeff’s Gaming for Learning resources
• Beth Blue Swadener (article): “At Risk” or “At Promise”?
• James Paul Gee:
  • article, book
  •  Videos:
    • Learning with video games
    • Principles on Gaming
• Stanford study on math improvement through gaming
• Apps that Teach (and are fun, too!)
• Games:
  • Plants vs. Zombies (free online version)
    • Maths With Zombies (website)
    • Jeff’s PvZ Rates collaborative sheet
    • Rates by weapon in PvZ
  • Angry Birds (free online version)
    • Jeff’s Angry Birds Geometry ocllaborative sheet
  • Fruit Ninja (free online version)
    • Fruit Ninja score tracker sheet
    • Math Slicer
  • Flick Fishing
  • Wuzzit Trouble
    • Keith Devlin videos
  • Extra game ideas:
    • Lure of the Labyrinth
    • Amazing Alex

Related sessions:

• Gaming for Literacy
• Ripping It Up: Engaging boys and vulnerable students through technology, inquiry and gaming