A fireworks display launches 40 fireworks in sequence. Each firework reaches a random height, independent of the height that ...

Is asking your youngster to study math like asking him to eat Brussels sprouts? Then there’s no need to let him in on the secret that he’s actually learning with math games. From arithmetic to ...

Wuzzit Trouble, from InnerTube games, is new in the app store this week. Innertube Games is a learning-games studio founded by four enthusiasts, including the world famous Dr. Keith Devlin: the NPR ...

LAS CRUCES - Researchers at New Mexico State University are looking at how fourth- and fifth-grade students can better understand early algebra concepts after using educational video games developed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about global education, game-based learning, kids, & culture. This article is more than 10 years old. On average, it took ...

Edutainment games like Number Munchers or Big Thinkers! always felt like they had a sinister side. There’s something weird about someone emphatically telling you how cool learning is. As I ...

Earlier today I set you the following puzzles, adapted from Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin. 1. Five nice dice A roll of five dice produces the numbers 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. View image in ...

Imagine walking into an eighth-grade classroom in Kansas in 1895, and being handed an arithmetic exam with no calculator, no ...