Making Chemistry Fun to Learn

Making Chemistry Fun to Learn.

The major challenge that confronts undergraduate chemical education in US is the gap between the high demands that learning requires and the low efforts that students make partially due to the lack of motivation. This paper reports strategies to ameliorate student learning in the following areas: application of friendly presentation, utilization of analogies and correlation with everyday life. ...

A fun way to learn terminology: the crossword puzzle.

Making Mathematics Fun , Accessible , and

The theme of this year's conference is “Making Mathematics Fun, Accessible and Challenging through Technology”. Version 6 of Mathematica, released in May 2007, is instantly interactive, allowing teachers and students to easily construct live interfaces to illustrate and investigate mathematical concepts at all levels [1]. Over 2000 examples of these interactive capabilities, including a number ...

Learning to be Fun: Real-Time Interactive Story Making

Since the inception of role-playing games in the 1960s, interactive, collaborative storytelling and making has filled a niche for those who are not always satisfied with merely reading a novel; being able to creatively influence the story as it unfolds holds a greater appeal [5]. With the proliferation of modern personal computers in the 1980s, a new role-playing market evolved, where pre-writt...

Playful Probing: Making Probing More Fun

We present a methodological variation of cultural probing called playful probing. In playful probing games are developed according to the area investigated, to enhance participants’ involvement in the studies. The games are used as additional probing material and enhance participants’ involvement. Based on an experimental case study with 40 households participating in a ethnographic study on ne...