Tag Archives: motion math
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Questimate! Makes Learning Estimation Skills Fun
More than Fun and Games at the NSVF Summit
by Jessica Millstone
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
But Are They Really Learning? The First Controlled Study of an iPad Learning App
by Jacob Klein and Gabriel Adauto
December 21, 2011
December 21, 2011
How does one know that an educational experience is actually helping students learn? Our company Motion Math makes educations games for the iPad and iPhone that let kids play with numbers. It’s easy for us to think, as we’re making our apps, and watching students play them, to believe that learning is happening, especially because we spend a lot of time ensuring that our designs follow good pedagogical and usability principles. However, the history of educational technology is littered with many false promises and disappointing results, most recently given an overview by Matt Richtel of The New York Times. For these reasons, and for our own self-understanding, it’s important that we sometimes hold our learning technologies up to scientific scrutiny.
What Happens at App Camp
by Carly Shuler
June 14, 2011
June 14, 2011