<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Chris Ball <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org">cjb@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Caroline,<br> <div class="im"><br> > Hi Chris, I had a crazy idea for Arithmetic yesterday. Its a<br> > wonderful game for the GPA. Its exactly the kind of practice the<br> > students at GPA need. Its collaborative and other people are a<br> > huge key to engagement. But as you said it needs a little<br> > something more to make it fun.<br> <br> </div>This sounds like a good way to make it more fun, although I suppose<br> it's making the game longer by making the players wait for someone to<br> place a piece in the Physics world before getting a new question;<br> another way would be to replace the numeric scores with icons that<br> race towards a finish line as their owners score points, perhaps.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My thinking was that you have to use your time (is is 10 seconds per question?) to both answer the question and do your physics move. Maybe physics moves accumulate for a minute or two but you never wait for a physics move. This is a high pressure timed adreline rush game. The goal is to get students to know their facts so well that they can answer math questions while thinking about the physics game not the math. We want to drill the recall so, for example, when they do algebra and such it takes very few neurons firing to do the arithmetic so they can focus their thinking on the algebra. </div> <div><br></div><div>I also think perhaps this game would not get boring, because you are not thinking about the math facts, you are thinking about what you want to create with Physics and thats interesting even the hundreth time. I feel like a lot of the flash animation games are interesting for a while, but once you;ve seen all the cool animations a few times its boring again.</div> <div><br></div><div>I also would love to not see an emphasis on points or winners or losers. Better performance gives you more physics moves so there is incentive, but its not directly competitive. </div><div><br></div> <div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> Unfortunately, I don't have any talent for the UI stuff -- the hope<br> was that by getting the collaboration part of the activity out there,<br> someone with UI skills will adopt making a fun UI for it (and better<br> scoring, and better question generation logic, etc). :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need a way to store project ideas and allow developers and teachers to collaborate around them. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> Thanks,<br> <br> - Chris.<br> --<br> Chris Ball <<a href="mailto:cjb@laptop.org">cjb@laptop.org</a>><br> </div>One Laptop Per Child<br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>