49. Successful Math
EduGame Ingredients
• Skills should be practiced with multiple representations
• Those representations should be intrinsic to the game
wrapper
• The game wrapper is critical to the repetition requirement
• The game wrapper is critical to the success of the
educational material
50. Multiple Representations
• Math is better understood with multiple representations to
showcase a skill
• You can take a formula like X = Y and break it down into
game components and represent that in different ways
51. Representations are Intrinsic
• The skill you are practicing must be integrated into the
game’s world to be believable
• Players care about intrinsic skill objects
• Once you get players to care about something in a game
you can further that connection and go deep
52. Game Wrapper is Critical to
Repetition
• Repetition of a skill is how a learned skill is permanently
held
• To enable massive repetition there must be good rewards
• Game objects that are available everywhere in a game
enable on-demand repetition for on-demand rewards
53. Game Wrapper is Critical to
Success of Education
• Players need to care about your world to make a
connection you can use to get them to engage in your
educational representations
• Players get lost in your world and the puzzles become
second nature to navigating the world and getting rewards
players want
• Players care about story, characters and fun activities.
This is the wrapper around your educational skills.
