By Stephen Noonoo, THE Journal
Nonprofit Mind Research Institute is trying to get students to rethink how to express the math standards they learned this year through its new “game-a-thon,” a K-12 contest that challenges students to create a video describing a game featuring creative or unusual solutions to math problems. Per the challenge’s rules, teams of two or more students, along with a teacher or mentor, invent the game, then upload a nuts-and-bolts video explaining how it works to YouTube (and example video has been posted online). Students can create all manner of games–from card and board games to apps–tackling a wide range of mathematics. All participants will receive prizes, and winners will be honored at a national math fair.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/05/08/k12-math-challenges-students-to-create-new-math-games.aspx
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