By watching or playing math video games, it has allowed students to understand better mathematical problems in form of video game. When children play the game either competitively or collaboratively with fellow players, they have a mindset of mastery automatically, which is very effective tool in learning as opposed to when they are playing alone. It is noticed as well that the enjoyment and keenness of students when playing these math video games have increased.
The findings of the result has been published and elaborated on how computers, gaming consoles as well as mobile based education can help in boosting learning benefits. Among the authors of research stated as well that they’ve discovered adequate support for well designed video games that they can act as a great tool for teaching students subjects that are often less popular among kids.
All sorts of game based learning quickly piques the interest of students regarding the subject along with broadening interests that’s beyond the goal of simply collecting stars or points.
By incorporating math video games and other interactive educational tools in classroom for children, it basically helps them to further enhance the plaguing problems inside the usual classroom environment that puts student in a mindset to look smart instead of being interested to learn about the topic or subject.
The two main kinds of motivational orientations were primarily identified amongst students when engrossed in math video and other educational video games. Mastery motivation of achieving goals where students are focused on learning and developing new skills and second, performance based goal orientation wherein children are focused more on validating the skillset they have.
So, if we’re going to consider this situation in classrooms, then students might either be interested to be better at the game or should I say math while playing or they might show interest in proving that they’re smart or try to avoid to look incompetent from their friends and thus, enhancing their performance based motivation.
While the content and design of the video games are extremely important as it has a strong impact on the potential outcomes, the positive result from such studies has showcased that making education come in form of entertainment can bring considerable positive impact in learning. In fact, some even forward looking thinkers as well as contend education through math video games and the likes is the key to saving the idea of learning from instruction to real education. But these are only predictions and only time can tell what we are making out of this new teaching medium. Even then, this technique is being applied by various educational institutions and even instructors.