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What is Games Playing

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A kind of activity that combines reasoning, strategy, and reflection with competing challenge in a rich way. Playing games, especially strategy games, contributes to the development of mathematical abilities as well as to personal and social development.
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A Virtual Laboratory of Mathematics Education
Pedro Palhares (University of Minho, Portugal) and Alexandra Gomes (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch238
Abstract
Virtual laboratories are increasing for all areas of scientific domains. However, the concept of such laboratories can be extended to include educational activities. But the point is, how to do it? We have been involved in the development of a virtual laboratory on mathematics education for the past 15 months. Our institution is involved in the training of primary school teachers. On their final year, our students go to primary schools and teach there in some supervised classes. Our idea is to create an instrument that can be used with primary school children by our students, during the earlier-mentioned practice in schools. Therefore it has to be an instrument with features that include being appealing to children, easy to use, and helpful to novice primary school teachers.
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