Generating student interest in academics has always been a challenge, and the advent of electronic entertainment has not made this challenge any easier. However, by incorporating the engaging elements of these electronic systems into traditional teaching methods, educators could better attract their students to academic content. Using two sets of surveys, we developed a prototype intervention to gauge student interest in the use of one such element, narrative, to teach middle school level geometry.

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Creator

• Feng, Yu
• Poirier, William
• Doyle, Robert
• Thinzar, Phyo

Subject

• Learning
• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-011714-112015

Keyword

• Mathematics--Study and teaching
• Education, Secondary
• Educational games--Design and construction

Advisor

• Beck, Joseph E.

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-01-17

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright