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What's in a Name? Should We Be Calling It a Game? Rethinking Choice, Strategy, and Mathematical Integrity
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James Russo; Toby Russo – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2025
Mathematical games are widely used in primary school classrooms, yet the activities that are labelled as "games" vary considerably in their structure, cognitive demands, and potential to support student reasoning. This conceptual paper offers a typology that distinguishes between pseudo-games, superficial games, gamification, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Gamification, Game Based Learning