Here’s an article from the New York Times: Start-Up Uses Online Games to Teach Math. (Many thanks to Laremy from last semester for pointing this article out to me.)

The article does not reveal very much about the games themselves, but the approaches taken by the company are progressive.

Here are some choice quotes:

Children pick a theme, like an arcade or adventure park, and a character, like a dinosaur or pirate, and play an online game with a hidden math lesson.

“The hallmark of the product is it’s real math, but children think it’s a game,” said Lou Gray, DreamBox Learning’s chief executive officer.

Most competitors are doing repetition practice and drills — the lesson pathway is very linear, from lesson one to two, whether you crawled there or whether you zoomed there,” he said. “We founded the company with the idea that every student deserves an individually tailored education.

A good example of engaged learning that can be fun!