Students Tackle Math Via Fantasy Football
Corey Murray,
eSchool News,
Sept 02, 2005
This is a pretty good example, it seems to me, of how to use games productively in learning. Instead of trying to create a game specifically designed to teach math, a teacher has adapted an existing game - fantasy football - to draw out those elements that foster the learning of math. The idea here is that the foundational knowledge is not taught on its own, and in the abstract, but rather, that it emerges through the process of attempting to succeed at some other (more interesting and relevant) activity, in this case, fantasy football.
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