Children building and having fun while they learn geometry

Having fun and accepting challenges are natural instincts: jigsaw puzzles to challenge students and test their abilities while having fun!

CROSSWORD PUZZLES, hidden messages, word scrambles, word searches, card games, and “virtual” rats are used to motivate students, enhance their understanding of physiology, and foster logical thinking and problem-solving skills (1, 5–7). Similarly, jigsaw puzzles advance these attributes while also promoting the development of visual-spatial processing skills (9). The process of constructing the...

Children, Sports, and Family Dynamics: Are We Having Fun Yet?

Modeling Users at Multiple Levels of Expertise While They Learn

We report a way to build a series of GOMS-like cognitive user models representing a range of performance at different stages of learning. We use a spreadsheet task across multiple sessions as an example task; it takes about 20~30 min. to perform. The models were created in ACT-R using a compiler. The novice model has 29 rules and 1,152 declarative memory task elements (chunks)—it learns to crea...

Are we having fun yet?

Are you stressed out? Is your in box taller than you are? Do you have suicide hotline on speed dial? If you're not having fun at work, you're not alone.

Making Chemistry Fun to Learn.

The major challenge that confronts undergraduate chemical education in US is the gap between the high demands that learning requires and the low efforts that students make partially due to the lack of motivation. This paper reports strategies to ameliorate student learning in the following areas: application of friendly presentation, utilization of analogies and correlation with everyday life. ...