Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly strengthen young children's math skills, according to a new report by the HEDCO ...

In 2019, as a newly minted co-teaching pair, we stumbled upon game-based learning (GBL). The value of GBL was immediately obvious to us. We have since acquired expertise in GBL, serious games, and ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Some of the biggest and best arcade games are based on movies, including "Star Wars" and "Tron." But for every memorable arcade adaptation of a popular cinematic franchise, there are plenty that slip ...

Label the rectangles correctly with the letters A to I. Show puzzle solution Only the four blue-shaded rectangles below intersect three other rectangles, and therefore they must be F, G, H and I. H ...

A game called MATH FPS: Solve Or Die, which requires you to solve math problems while shooting enemies, is now in Early Access. For some, the sheer thought of “math” might make them break out in cold ...

Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that’s you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, ...

I see it every fall: A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out completely, distracting nearby classmates during a lesson. Tears well up as a child struggles with a ...

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One of Python’s most persistent limitations is how unnecessarily difficult it is to take a Python program and give it to another user as a self-contained click-to-run package. The design of the Python ...