ERIC Number: EJ1356521
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Nov
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-1751-2271
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Playing Board Games to Learn Rational Numbers: A Proof-of-Concept
Mind, Brain, and Education, v16 n4 p293-299 Nov 2022
Educational board games are a promising teaching method due to their low cost, playful, exploratory, and engaging nature. By drawing on analogical research, we created a game whose structure of spatial relationships mirrored the structure of rational numbers. We expected that children playing this game would improve their knowledge of fractions. We conducted a school intervention with an active control group and pretest-posttest assessments to evaluate our board game. Playing this game promoted the learning of fractions, even after controlling for nonverbal cognitive abilities. This low-cost educational game might help reduce the knowledge gap that separates less and more affluent children.
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Cognitive Ability, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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