Few family rituals have as fixed a place in the American household, and in the popular imagination, as board games, those impromptu or regularly scheduled contests played by parents and children on ...

It is no secret that many students are not passionate about math. Students feel disconnected from what is taught in class, unsure of the benefits of math and reluctant to pursue careers in the field.

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 ...

Game-based learning has become synonymous with educational video games in some circles, but low-tech games have been used with great success in classrooms for a while. In fact, games that don’t ...

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based ...

ANAHEIM – Nine year-old Nancy Ruiz sits down at a cafeteria table strewn with small circular plastic chips, and cautiously examines a sheet of paper with a diagram for the “chip number puzzle.” The ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Math Classroom Challenge Math is boring, so they say. Well, no more. Math Classroom Challenge is an educational game in first person view, with the mission ...

Students actively engage in tasks that are doable and interesting—which frees up time for personalized instruction.

I learned quite a bit from a tiny robot named 2-XL. If you’re not an official Old™ like me, you may not remember this kids’ toy, which first appeared in 1978, and was a glorified 8-track cassette ...

International Mathematics Day 2026: The International Mathematical Union has shared several classroom games and activities ...