Click here for the GTEN workshop video. The Fifteen Game Collection provides a variety of mathematical games that seem very different, but all the games have the same mathematical structure and are isometric to each other.
Playing the games over several years, or in a single day, learners are asked if they see similarities. They find that each game requires players to collect sets of 3 objects chosen from a set of 9 where there are 8 possible winning combinations.
In international comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, Finland ranks very highly. Students achieve highly despite the fact that play features powerfully in Finnish education, despite starting school at the relatively late age of 7, despite having shorter school days, and despite the fact that teachers and local authorities have far greater autonomy than in many other high-performing countries.
Click here to download the PDF of the slides from this workshop.
Related learning resources:
TARGET 100 and Target 1000 Games
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