Decimal point: Designing and developing an educational game to teach decimals to middle school students

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 128-135

  Forlizzi, Jodi ^a   McLaren, Bruce ^a   Ganoe, Craig ^a   McLaren, Patrick ^a   Kihumba, Grace ^a   Lister, Kimberly ^a  

^a Human Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decimals; Educational game; Erroneous examples; Game design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; EDUCATION; ERRORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; DECIMALS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; ERRONEOUS EXAMPLES; GAME DESIGN; INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES; LEARNING MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84923536607     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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