Broward County Middle School Students Put Math Skills to the Test in First County-Wide Educational Video Game Competition.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Tabula Tab´u`la n. 1. A table; a tablet. 2. (Zool.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Digita: [TABLE OMITTED] Move over spelling bees spelling bee n. A contest in which competitors are eliminated as they fail to spell a given word correctly. Also called spelldown. Noun 1. and sports competitions. There's a new game in town and you can find it in scores of middle school math classes from coast-to-coast. In math classes, you say? Yes, the "game + education = learning" equation is being played out with cutting-edge immersive educational video games See video game console. . Next week, that love of learning math - using video games - will be demonstrated during a LIVE competition with some 160 middle school student "gamers" from 24 Broward County middle schools. The event will be hosted by educational video gaming video gaming n. 1. Gambling by means of interactive games of chance played on a video screen. 2. The playing of video games. company Tabula Digita. At the tournament, schools will be using the company's DimensionM[TM] immersive educational software. The gaming software is currently used in Broward County and numerous other districts across the state including Orange, Seminole, Volusia, and Palm Beach Counties. During the energy-packed contest, students will go head-to-head using their math skills to advance through timed video games. To move ahead, and ultimately win the tournament, students will have to navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. through numerous mathematical obstacles, and compete with their fellow students, to score points. "These schools represent the very essence of why we developed DimensionM in the first place - the students are engaged, excited, and improving their mastery of math," said Ntiedo Etuk, chief executive officer of Tabula Digita. |
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