Playing by numbers

Let's stop playing with numbers.

correspondence correspondence I t is becoming increasingly fashionable to play with numbers, or letters representing numbers (for example, h and w), to measure the performance of a scientist or a scientific journal. Developing algorithms to calculate such numbers is becoming a science in itself, with each author claiming that his or her metrics measure better than others. The controversy will p...

Extend a ranking method of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to all fuzzy numbers by a weighting functions

Recently Abbasbandy and Hajjari (Computers and Mathematics with Applications57 (2009) 413-419) have introduced a ranking method for the trapezoidalfuzzy numbers. This paper extends theirs method to all fuzzy numbers,which uses from a defuzzication of fuzzy numbers and a general weightingfunction. Extended method is interesting for ranking all fuzzy numbers, and itcan be applied for solving and ...

Playing Mozart Phrase by Phrase

Learning by Playing and Learning by Making

Serious video games have been proposed as a means to engage students with the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) curriculum, but there is limited research on the required game elements and teaching practices. In particular, there is limited evidence on the effects of the storytelling element and of student involvement in making games on the learning performance and on the atti...

Developing competencies by playing digital sports-games

The idea of digital game-based learning (DGBL) is that students (or players) learn something by playing a computer or video game and that an educator can employ digital games to assist and boost both formal and informal learning. There is game software that is not specifically produced for educational use but which is nonetheless regularly implemented in educational settings by educators. These...