Innovations in Learning

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6. Zombie Division (UK)

Learning through Practising

Zombie Division is a game designed to help children aged eight to eleven to practise their multiplication and division. They divide skeletons wearing numbers (such as 18) with mathematical weapons (such as 3). Research revealed that successful educational games do not simply provide an opportunity for learners to practise. Instead games that integrate the knowledge and skills to be learnt directly into the structure of the game activity are both more fun for children to play and more effective than those where the game is used as motivation but without connection to the learning content.