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Kids and iPads are a better fit than you'd think—as long as those little hands are clean. More »
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Scott Laidlaw is slowing down the pace on educational math games. More »
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Teacher Robert Drewnowski had only $300 in grant money to help him develop a more effective way of teaching math to fourth graders. He used it to buy a Wii. More »
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In Mass Effect 2, your space-faring hero can wear a helmet. It's not mandatory. I choose to have my character not wear a helmet. What's that signify? More »
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Seven months ago, DreamBox Learning launched its math-based edutainment site for kids between kindergarten and second grade. Today, it's making virtual headlines with success stories. More »
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I have to hand it to this little web start-up company: it’s a gutsy strategy to deceive schoolchildren with a game called “DreamBox Learning K-2 Math.” I’d have thought Math Blaster was subtler edutainment. More »
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Ever since the beta for Littlebigplanet hit, we've seen numerous level designs, some good, some not so good. From classic Mario remakes to re-imagining of the humongous spectacles found in Shadow of the Colossus. Heck, even Tristan is a game designer in the making. But simply from an engineering standpoint, I think this is by far and away the best yet. A user created a real-time working calculator that accurately adds and subtracts numbers. The level is said to use 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, and 430 pistons. I didn't see what the big deal was until the camera panned up. That's when my mouth hit the floor. Thanks to everyone, and I mean everyone, who sent this in! More »
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The BBPS reports that a crafty New York math teacher has been using Link and his triangle-loving ways to sneak a little edu-ma-cation into his students. Am I the only one slightly confused by the description? More »
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Kyle Orland, formerly of Video Game Media Watch, currently of Joystiq, and now the Media Coverage Columnist over at Game Daily, reviewed a year's worth of Electronic Gaming Monthly's Quartermann rumor mill, to see how it does at predicting things to come in the gaming industry. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=228347&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday GameStop's Chris Olivera told me that between eight and 16 Playstation 3s were pre-ordered at each of their 3,600 stores. If I apply math that means somewhere between 28,800 and 57,600 Playstation 3s were pre-ordered. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=206829&view=rss&microfeed=true There are tons of these vids floating around the Intertubes, making me think that there either a lot of people really good at math or a lot of people good at cheating. Regardless, I'm amazed the game can read this guy's chicken scrawl, because mine causes it to go haywire. That, and when I say "blue." Brian Ashcraft More »
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Cathode Tan discovered this odd little image of a Pac-Man card game, circa 80-something. Like CT, I had no idea such a thing existed, nor did I have any idea how it plays. But according to the inside box instructionsBoard Game Geek, it looks even unbearably lame than it's source game, in which you try to add, subtract or multiply your way to high-points. A math game. How droll. Florian Eckhardt More »
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Perhaps in the wake of Sony's claims that their Playstation Portable outsold the Nintendo DS in the US, Nintendo released some sales figures today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=189381&view=rss&microfeed=true Alrighty, you guys have been asking for us to make the Friday Night Lites contest hard, like really hard, to cut down on the number of people who get the answer right. Last time around we managed to reduce the right answers from more than a thousand to about 400. This time I'm trying for single to double digits, mostly because I'm a bastard. More »
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Oh boy, bar graphs! A whole new way to poke fun at the PS3. Tech site Effectu has a pretty tangerine article about the PS3's outlandish pricing, and how it may spell failure: More »
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Guardian's Gamesblog takes a look at the math of Sony's recent assertions that they can supply enough PS3 consoles for a simultaneous world-wide launch in November, 2006. More »
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