Educational Game
A game is a structured or semi-structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes also used as an educational tool.
One clever and innovative technique to further stimulate creative and analytical thinking among students is the use of educational games, either traditional or computer game software to enhance learning mathematics.
Educational games are games; board and card games, including video games that are designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play.
Below are some types of educational games:
Board Games
A board game is a game played with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface, usually specific to that game.
Examples:
- Acquire
- Axis and Allies
- Boggle
- Brain Chain
- Scrabble
- Upwords.
Card Games
An educational card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or game-specific. Generally these games expand concepts, such as the food chain, set matching, etc. Card games use as a central tool a deck of cards. The cards may be a standard Anglo-American (52-card) deck of playing cards.
Video and PC Games
Some people call these types of games edutainment because they combine education and entertainment. Closely related to the use of educational games is the use of what is known as Serious games.
There are many educational games. Games that parents and teachers play with children usually have some kind of educational value. Some examples include:
- Jumpstart
- Reader Rabbit
- The ClueFinders
- Gcompris
- eduProfix
- Zoombinis
- Pelmanism
- Quest atlantis
- Urban Jungle
- Storybook Weaver
- Giizmos & Gadgets
Most of these types of games target young user from the ages of about three years to mid-teens; past the mid-teens, subjects become so complex that teaching via a game is impractical. Numerous subgenres exist, each for a different field (math games, typing games and so on).
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