#this is the real world application for algebra that your math teachers told you about

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How many Fausts do you think Noel had in the Prison Pits?

We know Arthur had one Faust during his three months in the pits (1:3). If we assume that this ratio applies to the rest of the pits, then at a rate of approximately 1 Faust per every 3 months, there would be 4 Fausts per year (1/3 x 12 = 4). We also know that Noel was in there for ten years, and so we must multiply our yearly total to find the decade total (10 x 4 = 40).

Therefore, we can assume that Noel killed and ate at least 40 Fausts during his time in the Prison Pits.

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Creating Your Own Education Lesson Plan

I struggled with math throughout my entire academic career.  In elementary and middle school I took a stand against my teacher saying mad minutes created anxiety and didn’t teach me anything.  In freshman year of high school I didn’t get along with my Algebra 1 teacher at all. I chose to not turn in 13 homework assignments because I had been trying and getting less than 50’s on them.  Quiz time rolled around and I was still making 45’s and 62’s on them.  When it came time for the six weeks grades to be released, I had made a 69 for my overall grade; this stopped me from being able to participate in region orchestra. There are many students who struggle and have some story like this, for some subject.

With the number of gamers I have known to complain about education, it is time that they take their education into their own hands. True it is your teacher’s job to teach you, but from what I hear they don’t know how you learn or what your goals are. When I did substitute teaching so many kids told me it was their teachers fault that they had bad grades. If you have a teacher that isn’t getting through to you, follow this route:

1.        Go to office hours/tutoring with your teacher

2.        If you still don’t understand find the head of the department at your                  school and have them try to help

3.        If you are still struggling there should be a curriculum advisor who can             see about transferring you to a different teacher.

4.        Read the chapters in the book and do the unit quiz/test.  (teachers                  sometimes make this homework)

5.        Ask your teacher what core curriculum standards they are trying to get             you to achieve. These are standards that are set up in each state               and what the state wants to see when you graduate.  Teacher’s                lesson plans are supposed to be in line with this and their 6/9 week                  goals should include this.

 There is only so long that you can claim a teacher is in charge of you not learning.  If you are in elementary school and struggling you can find the head teacher for your grade level to ask for help.  If you are in middle/high school it will be a department head for that subject in your grade.  I struggled and felt stupid because my teachers refused to use different methods to teach me.  By now if you have been following all my articles you will have figured out what your learning style is and what kind of intelligence you lean towards.

The gaming lesson plan is rooted in education lesson plans.  Here is a model one for an essay:

Task: 3-5 page paper with at least 3 sources

Duration: About six weeks but you waited until now

Directions:

·         Thesis statement should be a sentence that is supported by your texts. Usually teachers give you a bunch of questions/writing prompts; make the question into a statement. This should be considse but not fully explained at the beginning of the paper

·         Whatever sources you have scan quickly to find keywords related to your essay topic. The source needs to be 2 sentences that talk about that topic in some way.  Shape your opinion of the paper based on what the majority of your sources say. (If you are creative and can argue against it obviously you don’t need this) Ex. You are writing about the Salem witch trials, scan for words: witch, lawyer, trial.

·         You need a sentence to lead in and introduce your quoted source.  This can be who is talking and when they said it relative to other information in your text.  Ex. Doctor Eeks said this in relation to child development before explaining his own thoughts.

·         You need 3 sentences to explain the quote. What is happening?  Why was this said?  In what way does this support your thesis? The more you can explain (which can be matter of observation or opinion) the more words you have to work with.

·         Another 2 sentences to explain your opinion on the subject taking the source into mind.

·         Final paragraph should include the thesis statement further explained. This is where you go into detail of how all of the sources support/relate to what you believe.

You know how you learn best so use that to your advantage.  Nobody can learn for you.  Try to experiment to learn something.

 If you are working on vocabulary and struggling, trying playing charades to act out what the words means. [Kinesthetic] 

Try having someone repeat the word and you say out loud the definition. [Auditory] 

Try copying the word three times on paper. [Reading/Writing] 

Draw pictures of what the word means on the front of the card with the word. [Visual]

Keeping this in mind will help us level up within real world applications and in game.  Challenge yourself to think differently and show that you are master tier in your own education.

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Polar & Parametric, including how to sketch polar curves and find the area bounded by polar curves

Sequences & Series, including all the convergence tests, and Taylor and Maclaurin series

Requirements

You should have a decent foundation (but it doesn’t have to be perfect! :D) in Algebra.

If you have some experience with Trigonometry and Precalculus, that will definitely be helpful, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

A good foundation in Calculus 1 (limits and derivatives) is required for this course.

Description

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What We Learn from the Edtech Games the Government Plays

What can you learn from some of the games the government has going on?For starters: Algebra, history, chemistry, English and yes, even civics and how to brush your teeth. Monday was the fifth annual ED Games Expo, held at the the famed Washington performance hall, the John F. Kennedy Center. Some 120 games, created by 80 game developers who have received support for their work from the federal government, were on hand to show off their latest creations.

And by the looks on the faces of many of the 475 school kids who showed up to try out the games and learn about what it takes to make them, the free show was a hit. Another 200 students and their families visited later in the evening.

The event was coordinated by the Small Business Innovation Research programs at the U.S. Department of Education as well as other federal departments, with support from the Entertainment Software Association. All told, 17 federal departments (including agriculture, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation) provided support for the developers. The gathering was also a warm-up act for a two-day Institute of Education Sciences research conference. That means that even though all the game developers were keen to show off the fun aspects of their games, their products are based on research and the developers were eager to talk about measuring results.

Building objects with Fab@School Maker Studio Source: Laurie Sullivan

This year, 55 of the 120 games demonstrated received support from the Department of Education’s SBIR program. Those games were built by 80 developers, including 45 small business entrepreneurial developers and 35 university-based academic researcher and non-profit developers.

Although the grand atrium of the Kennedy Center more typically hosts ball gowns and Mozart fans than students with VR goggles swiping at invisible objects, the center is keen to show its appreciation for learning. “The Kennedy Center is committed to incorporating differentiated instruction and multi-modal learning in our education programs,” an official statement shared. That includes“...encourag[ing] a broad audience to consider game development as an important learning strategy.” Last year, the ED Expo featured two virtual reality games; this year it had 11. Here’s some of what we saw:

Math

Beautifully illustrated and backed by research? Math games have grown by leaps in the past six years. Among those at this year’s Expo:

Researchers at the University of Oregon showed off Numbershire and KinderTek, two math games for young children that teach foundational skills with illustrations and evidence-based practices.

Teachley, built by three female PhDs from Columbia University, offers math apps for grades 2 through 5, and uses visual models to help students learn math strategies.

BrainQuake, based in Berkeley, is expanding its Wuzzit Trouble math games and puzzles that help students develop number sense and proportional reasoning.

Empire, by MidSchoolMath, teaches math concepts through a story-based adventure game that includes trading goats and growing grain.

Killer Snails' games come in board game and VR versions. Source: Mom of All Capes

Science & Engineering

Brooklyn-based KillerSnails, developed by a chemistry professor, a long-time teacher and developmental psychologist, offers everything from a board game to an augmented reality game for discovering diverse creatures in biomes that range from the Pacific Ocean to the Sahara Desert.

Happy Atoms, developed by Schell Games, helps middle-school students develop an intuitive sense about molecules by building them with physical models and then exploring their properties through an app. Alchemie, aimed at high school and college students, teaches chemistry through an augmented reality app with real-time feedback on creating molecular structures.

Researchers at the University of Missouri are working on HydroSci, an eight-hour long open world game in a 3D virtual learning environment where students must solve earth science problems (say, locate a source of pollution).

Physics Playground , a game under development by researchers at Florida State University lets students experiment with Newtonian physics--and then aims to assess their persistence and creativity in solving the challenges. 

With FableVision’s Fab@School Maker Studio, students can design 3D structures that are printed out on paper—and can then be assembled into models.

The Beamer wants to guide middle- and high-school students through a lush game in which they share carbon molecules with loads of creatures—from T-Rex’s to Albert EInstein.

Students talk with game developers including Maria Burns Ortiz of 7 Generation Games after panel. Source: Laurie Sullivan

English and …

Words Live, just launched in last November, juxtaposes contemporary song lyrics with classic texts, pairing say, a song from Jay-Z with a text by Dr. Martin Luther King. (More details here.)

Walden, a game under development by game designer-turned-professor Tracy Fulleron, aims to support “deliberate play.” The game recreates Henry David Thoreau’s Walden with historically accurate images and even recorded sounds from Concord's idyllic pond. Students engage with the plants, animals and other features of the pond, transforming Thoreau’s humanistic ideals into an open, passive, reflective, and observational style of game-play.

iCivics, a nonprofit that has built almost 20 games and 160 civics lessons, promotes roleplaying to help students understand the work of members of government and how they try to spur change both locally and nationally. (More than 5 million students already use iCivics; they hope to grow that number fourfold by 2020).

Bio Dive means no one gets wet when they (virtually) swim. Source: Laurie Sullivan

When Games That Work isn’t building “serious” games for the military, it’s developed projects with universities and even the Texas-based charter school, the Acton Academy. One of its games is a VR app about the joys of brushing your teeth.

SBIR grants are typically awarded in two phases: Phase I awards provide about $200K for 8-months to develop a prototype of an education technology product; Phase II awards can be up to $1 million for more extensive development. The next round of Phase I applications to the Department of Education’s SBIR program are due January 25.

“It’s exciting progress to see 17 federal agencies represented here and to see the Expo grow from 10 games five years ago to more than 100. Best of all is to have the students here to play with the games and talk with the developers, ” said Ed Metz, an education research analyst for the department’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Virtual Reality Games on Display at ED Games Expo 2018

BioDive

Brush Up VR

Cell Runner

ChirosVR

Gaspee VR

Journey Through a Supernova Remnant

Osso VR

SuperChem VR

The Wizard of Menlo Park

VR-EaT

Wright’s First Flight

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School is a hypocrisy

Today I registered for classes for my senior year, now I’m not the brightest bulb so I decided I was going to community college first, so all I really need this year is to graduate.So while picking out my math class (that I don’t need to graduate I already have 3 and half years out of the 3 year requirement in math) I decided against calculus since I’d rather take something easier like finance or remedial math,however my counselor said and I quote,”I’m not letting you take finance because it is below your level and you don’t need it, it only deals with real world applications you need to take college prep math.” Wow I had no idea that something meant for the real world didn’t matter in all honesty I’d much rather figure out how to balance a check book or use a 401k than relearn algebra and geometry. After school no one cares if you majored in liberal arts or you took remedial math they care that you have that degree and that you have experience and can handle a situation just because you have a masters in child care doesn’t mean you are fit to take care of children and just because you fail high school doesn’t mean you can’t be intelligent. While I agree school is important I still believe that you wont be successful until you live and learn from life, the best teachers I’ve ever had didn’t have masters degrees or come straight from college back to high school they lived life and then decided to come back and be an educator. You can’t learn everything behind a screen or with a book sometimes you need experiences and the fact that she told me I couldn’t take something that prepares for the real world despite them telling me they are preparing me for life makes me realize why we’re all doomed and its because we will never progress as a society if the only thing valued is that masters degree, mechanics are people, fast food workers are people. Your education doesn’t make you better or worse though it can propel you I still think we need a change so that when we all fly out the nest we aren’t clueless and falling into debt becoming middle aged has beens who refer to high school as their glory days. Life is too short I want to live, but I don’t want to work my whole life for something that in reality doesn’t matter, life is about who you loved, who loves you, and how much fun you had till the end. On your death bed you wont be saying you wished you took more AP classes your gonna say I wish I was kinder to my mom, I never should have let her go, I wish I had lived more. I went a little off topic but I feel that as a society we think of life as a pissing match about who as more money, who drives the better car but it doesn’t matter in the end.