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Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

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Post by Shared404 »

RomanPushkin wrote: post #59
stevofolife wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, what is cool, captivating and educational to you? Love to know.

One of the ideas - introduction to math equations as 3D graphics game with effects. I haven't seen such games, except silly, that do that. Maybe some other foundational math principles implemented as games. I love https://www.zachtronics.com/ games, but these games are for 12+ I guess, and even more. Not always about math though. Adults assume that kids are fine with silly educational tools. While in reality they're…

Something like Myst could be a very fun implementation of this. Have some of the puzzle be solved by manipulation of the environment using graphing, or have actual mathematical puzzles.

I bet a word problem would be much more interesting if you play it out

Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

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Post by diggernet »

mncharity wrote: post #43

Fwiw, in "Numberman's Pizza Party | Addition within 5", after the question (and answer) has changed, clicking on a box with the old (now incorrect) answer yields correct pizza. And the reverse. It seems box correctness is set at creation, rather than reflecting the current question? Which sets up a dynamic of look at question, click on "correct for current question" box, get told it's wrong.

Yup, that caught me off guard, too. Perhaps a solution would be to have a gap where the old pizzas finish but no new ones are added, then change the prompt and start new pizzas when the screen is empty.

Another problem I saw in that game: At one point the prompt was 50 45 __ 35 but it wanted me to click on 30. That was in the Skip Counting By 5 game.

Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

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Post by bobobob420 »

RomanPushkin wrote: post #13

I am willing to pay $1000 for a math game that won't be silly. I'm not even kidding. I tried to find something that would spark interest, captivate, but I had little luck with math games. I wrote my own (if you scroll my comment history) math game/app which is little bit different and partially solves the problem. But I am constantly looking for anything that would be cool, captivating, and educational.

I do raindrops on luminosity. Its pretty dumb but I want to get a high score. The rest of luminosity games are pretty bad

Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

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Post by whitej125 »

My son responds super well to gamified learning. What I found is that there are plentiful options when it comes to math... but not as much so when it comes to reading.

When he was in kindergarten during the disrupted school year of 2020/21... I created a "reading version" of the classic Battle Ship game. Instead of a 10x10 grid of letters and numbers it was a 10x10 grid of K-2 "sight words" that I would randomly choose and draw onto a grid (in Excel) that could be printed.

Then we'd play by reading and repeating sight words to indicate the coordinates to attack. He loved it!

Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade

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Post by moserch »

whitej125 wrote: post #68

My son responds super well to gamified learning. What I found is that there are plentiful options when it comes to math... but not as much so when it comes to reading. When he was in kindergarten during the disrupted school year of 2020/21... I created a "reading version" of the classic Battle Ship game. Instead of a 10x10 grid of letters and numbers it was a 10x10 grid of K-2 "sight words" that I would randomly choo…

Such a great idea. We played a lot of battleship when we were growing up. I may need to try this out with my son when he starts learning to read!
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