Comments and changes to the MathTrek game

[Maria Droujkova]

Based on the last four meetings, and ideas of participants, here are a few comments from your gamemaster :-)

• I need to watch the quality of examples and make them particular entities (nested doll) rather than generic or abstract descriptions (color and size) - thank you, Cindy
• We will have fun, active "endgame experience" every time - thank you, Laura! From the four past meetings, making the topic of the day out of ourselves sounds like a good idea, as we did with inscribed polygons
  
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• Discussions at the end work better for grown-ups than they do for kids. From now on, I will only invite adults to them, while kids can run around or eat (or listen in if they are VERY interested)
• We have to snack every half an hour, ideally, while doing math. It burns a lot of calories. I will bring small snacks that go pocket-to-mouth even in museums.
  
• Speaking of museums, Katherine expressed concerns that stuff in them is already sorted, aggregated, and labeled and may not be ideal for a discovery experience. From now on, we will have outdoors and museum as options, if we go to museums.
• Uploading pictures is easy for some people and seems hard for others. This needs to be solved with technology. I am discussing the programming of MathTrek at two forums: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mathgamedesign and http://gameful.org/
  
• While we are talking about technology, incorporating Verna's ideas about location sounds like fun! Let's discuss this more and figure out game mechanics for it
  

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova

Make math your own, to make your own math.