Edutopia – Amanda Armstrong
“Teachers all over the country are coming up with different solutions to the problem of motivating students to persist with math learning. One potential solution that excites a lot of teachers—and their students—is game-based learning, and I recently had a chance to get an inside look at how games can be used in math education by talking to the creators of a free online platform called Math Snacks. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Math Snacks is a set of games and animations for middle school students that has brought math educators and learning theory researchers together with multimedia developers in a fruitful collaboration.” (more)