Describes a model to be used by designers, users, or researchers in appraising management games based on four concentric circles which put the game in the context of (1) game purposes, (2) cognitive objectives, (3) affective objectives, and (4) management qualities and skills. (Author/CMV)

A compilation of selected reading games by experienced classroom teachers to send home to parents and help children maintain skills and concepts over the summer. (SS)

Presents a crossword puzzle with 99 answers designed as a final exam in neurophysiology. Includes the puzzle, clues, and answers. (MA)

Referees in amateur sports must apply the rules in keeping with the spirit of the game, not as a contest to produce winners and losers, but as wholesome recreation. (JD)

Presents a model which suggests experiments that may be relevant for some of the real-life problems society currently faces. Extending the generality of the model may provide valuable insights into the underlying processes which facilitate or inhibit the development of cooperative behavior. (Author/RK)

Take a pawn. Check the king. Children joust with an age-old game and come up winners. (Editor)

A monthly exchange of tips, projects, ideas and resources. (Editor)

Presents eleven groups of activities students can undertake which deal with sidewalks and which involve both social studies and language arts skills. (DD)

Discusses the use of educational games in the mathematics classroom. Emphasizes the reasons for the need for games, organizing games, and the analyses of games. Presents 10 examples of these mathematical games. (ASK)

Considering the players, the game, and the environment in which games are played can make games play at camp safer, more successful, and more enjoyable. Presents factors concerning the players, the game, roughhousing, excessive competitiveness, the environment, space, boundaries, weather, time, and overall game objectives that need to be…

Introduces concepts of modern algebraic group theory in the form of a game. Peg boards and rubber bands represent nonnumerical group elements and are manipulated under the operation of reorienting a regular polygon. Symmetry groups are used to explore set properties, as well as commutative and noncommutative operations. (CMS)

Business policy students (n=80) participating in a business simulation game were able to apply their classroom learning. Their satisfaction was not determined solely by game attributes; locus of control, achievement need, risk propensity, and satisfaction with their group were influential factors. (SK)

Illustrates how principles and intermediate microeconomic students can gain an understanding for strategic price setting by playing a relatively large oligopoly game. Explains that the game extends to a continuous price space and outlines appropriate applications. Offers the Mathematica code to instructors so that the assumptions of the game can…