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Garrett Eastman

Resources optimization in (video) games: a novel approach to teach applied mathematics? - 2 views

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shared by Garrett Eastman on 12 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Garrett Eastman on 12 Jan 13
     
    Abstract: "In spite of the efficacy of Operations Research (OR), its tools are still underused, due to the difficulties that people experience when describing a problem through a mathematical model. For this reason, teaching how to approach and model complex problems is still an open issue. A strong relation exists between (video) games and learning: for this reason we explore to which extent (real time) simulation video games could be envisaged to be an innovative, stimulating and compelling approach to teach OR techniques."
Garrett Eastman

Language May Play Important Role in Learning the Meanings of Numbers - 3 views

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shared by Garrett Eastman on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Garrett Eastman on 09 Feb 11
     
    Experiments by University of Chicago psychologists with deaf people in Nicaragua who learned "homesigns" rather than formal sign language, could not count beyond three. In contrast, people learning sign language learn number words and number concept and understand large numbers. The findings ""suggest that language is an important player in number acquisition." The research is reported in PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/31/1015975108.abstract
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