Comments on: Compounding Fun with Vector TD http://teachingcollegemath.com/2010/01/compounding-fun-with-vector-td/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=compounding-fun-with-vector-td Fri, 18 May 2012 02:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: josh g. http://teachingcollegemath.com/2010/01/compounding-fun-with-vector-td/comment-page-1/#comment-2634 josh g. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:53:30 +0000 http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=1912#comment-2634 The time taken to play through is hard to avoid if using this particular game. I totally agree that actually taking this idea into your classroom comes with all kinds of challenges, and may not be worth it. At the same time, the implicit lesson here is long-term financial planning, so it's hard for me to recommend hunting down a game that shortens the play cycle significantly. If the reward for choosing higher interest rates is an immediate one, you're not really learning the same thing. The ideal, I guess, would be something turn-based that can be done in bite-sized pieces over a longer period of time. Another possibility is to draw out more value by asking students to deconstruct more of the math inside the game; increase the learning/time spent ratio that way. (Maybe.) The time taken to play through is hard to avoid if using this particular game. I totally agree that actually taking this idea into your classroom comes with all kinds of challenges, and may not be worth it.

At the same time, the implicit lesson here is long-term financial planning, so it’s hard for me to recommend hunting down a game that shortens the play cycle significantly. If the reward for choosing higher interest rates is an immediate one, you’re not really learning the same thing. The ideal, I guess, would be something turn-based that can be done in bite-sized pieces over a longer period of time.

Another possibility is to draw out more value by asking students to deconstruct more of the math inside the game; increase the learning/time spent ratio that way. (Maybe.)

]]> By: Jason Dyer http://teachingcollegemath.com/2010/01/compounding-fun-with-vector-td/comment-page-1/#comment-2512 Jason Dyer Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:01:22 +0000 http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=1912#comment-2512 This is interesting, but I'd have a really hard time justifying the learning/time spent ratio on this one. Is there a compact way to do the same lesson that still maintains the game interest? This is interesting, but I’d have a really hard time justifying the learning/time spent ratio on this one.

Is there a compact way to do the same lesson that still maintains the game interest?

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