Schools in the United States are trying to achieve adequate yearly progress (AYP). Due to federal legislation changes in recent years that require schools to make AYP, there have been many discussions regarding how to achieve this when all subgroups are expected to perform at the same level. According to the literature, special education students…

What do experienced teachers have to say about integrating modern educational games into their classroom? This paper addresses this question by exploring the discourse of teachers who were provided professional development, technical support, access to a modern educational game, and flexibility in deciding how to integrate the game in their…

This teaching brief presents a Microsoft® Excel simulation designed to complement and expand upon the well-known matchstick/die game introduced by Goldratt in "The Goal." This simulation performs 100 replications of a 40-period processing run for low, medium, and high levels of process variation and displays the comparative results…

In this article, we explore the game based on the following problem from the 1st Mathematical Olympiad of Central America and the Caribbean, held in Costa Rica in 1999: Player A turns on the calculator, presses a digit key and then presses the + key. A second later, player B presses a digit key in the same row or column of the last digit key…

Background/Context: Rabbi Raymond Zwerin and Audrey Friedman Marcus published the Gestapo Holocaust simulation game in 1976. Since that time it has been a source of debate among Jewish intellectuals and other scholars concerned with the pedagogy of the Holocaust. Even the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has weighed in on the issue, taking…

A simple card game can introduce aspects of sequence comparisons and protein evolution used in bioinformatics.

Educational games have received increasing attention as one teaching technique for individualizing instruction. The use of games for education was borrowed from the business community, which in turn had borrowed the idea from the military. Educational games include several distinct types--simulations, role playing, games and simulation games. Two…

How games were used in colonial America for both learning and amusement. (HB)

A rationale for involving gifted children in the game of chess is presented (e.g., inexpensive equipment, ease of using introductory games to teach the moves, the aesthetic and mathematical satisfactions to be derived, scope for creativity, and development of thinking processes). (DB)

The various types of games are defined and characterized, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages provides a valuable guide to using games successfully. A comprehensive listing of science-related games follows the review. (Author)

A consideration of simulation/gaming research, problems, theoretical criticism, and markets, with a view to predicting future developments. (LS)

A game which deals with the design of instructional games. The player tries to predict the average attitude of the group toward instructional simulation games. The game allows the generation and verification of a number of hypotheses. (Author/LS)

Simulation games, defined and described in the article, could be used to improve the quality of adult learning. (AG)