Video Game Thinking Can Help Us Build Hands-On Math Toys For The Classroom

Video Game Thinking Can Help Us Build Hands-On Math Toys For The Classroom Here’s a great example of how gamification, or video game inspired thinking, can be integrated into non-digital learning. SumBlox is one of those ideas that seems so simple it is hard to believe nobody’s thought of it before. These wooden blocks, shaped like digits with heights that correspond to number value, create a playful way for young children to explore basic arithmetic. I rarely write about Kickstarter projects, but in this case I couldn’t resist. I would like to see SumBlox become a regular fixture in classrooms everywhere. Like all great games, they offer a systematic world of patterns and rules. In order to navigate that particular world, players must become intimately acquainted with the game’s components. In this case, the components are basic arithmetic.