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Gaming to Riches! Making Cents of Number Sense
Exploring Financial Literacy and Number Sense by having students play games that require making investment decisions, acquiring resources, bartering and selling items. By constructing their own knowledge of debt and credit, students will get a sense for positive and negative integers through deductions, interest owed, and interest accrued. Teachers can assess through observation, conversation and the …
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Games-based Learning in Math
This session explores the popular tools Kahoot and Prodigy to support and enhance learning in math. Kahoot is a quiz style game in which kids connect to a central computer using their device and partake in multiple choice quizzes that track their performance. Prodigy is a role playing fantasy game in which students must solve …
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Gamification and Game-Based Learning: Unit Design
Why are students so engaged by games? How can the foundations of gaming be adopted and integrated into our curriculum? Using the principles of gamification and game-based learning, this session will explore what makes playing games so engaging and how gamification and game-based learning can inform and help teachers re-envision unit design. A variety of …