This document discusses designing a game called FracAttack! to help students learn fractions. It was created at the SMALLab at Parsons The New School for Design. The game was designed to address challenges with learning fractions by incorporating constraints like multiple ways to interact, being life-sized, using full-body interaction, and supporting collaboration. It was prototyped in real-time coding sessions and aims to fit within the math curriculum by making fractions concepts more embodied and intuitive through gameplay.

1. DESIGNING GAMES
IN THE CLASSROOM
A SMALLab Case Study
Mike Edwards, Parsons The New School for Design
October 9, 2010

2. Welcome to SMALLab

3. How It All Works

4. How It All Works

5. How It All Works

6. How It All Works

7. How It All Works

8. How It All Works

9. How It All Works

10. How It All Works

11. Constraint: Multiple Modalities

12. Constraint: Scale

13. Constraint: Embodiment

14. Constraint: Collaboration

15. Challenge: Adding Fractions with Different Denominators

16. What Do Fractions Feel Like?

17. What Do Fractions Feel Like?

18. What Do Fractions Feel Like?

19. Drawing from the Teacher’s Practice

20. Designing FracAttack!

21. Designing FracAttack!

22. Designing FracAttack!

23. The Teacher Brains of FracAttack!

24. The Teacher Brains of FracAttack!

25. Designing within the Curriculum

26. Prototyping: Real-Time Coding

27. Prototyping: Real-Time Coding

28. Prototyping: Real-Time Coding

29. Thanks!