993073_691271549256_348358438_nĀ Ā  by for Crosscut

ā€œYou don’t feel like ā€˜I’m finished’ but ā€˜I want to learn more,’ā€ says Zoran Popovic, the Director of the University of Washington Center for Game Science. He is talking, of course, about math. Ā 

Right now, hundreds of Android tablets are stashed in rollaway closets spread over fourteen sixth grade math classrooms in five Seattle and Federal Way schools. These tablets are running a new kind of educational software dubbed Enlearn, built by a non-profit of the same name that the 46-year-old University of Washington professor founded in December 2012.

This relatively large ten-week trial is a follow-up to a five-day trial they conducted last spring, where teachers presented a short math curriculum twice: once with classic paper materials, and once with Enlearn. Ā  Ā Read more here.