{"id":11608,"date":"2014-06-19T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etec522m.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/?p=11608"},"modified":"2015-11-10T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:10:15","slug":"dragon-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2014\/06\/19\/dragon-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJIQznlv3Bk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dragon Box: <\/strong>Algebra game<\/p>\n<p>Integration: Available across platforms (Android, Windows, ipad)<\/p>\n<p>Motivation: Unlocking levels.\u00a0 Fast progression.\u00a0 Dragon rewards for leveling up.<\/p>\n<p>Audience: Students, parents, teachers<\/p>\n<p>Content: Math: Algebra<\/p>\n<p>Learning and Mastery: Leveled learning.\u00a0 Moves from basic algebra concepts using pictures and rules and gradually replaces pictures with mathematical symbols.<\/p>\n<p>Base game Dragon Box +5c is about $6.\u00a0 There is a harder version available Dragon Box +12, which costs about $12<\/p>\n<p>This game has incredible potential.\u00a0 I am eager to download a version and try it out with my step kids.\u00a0 It is a fun game that gradually moves kids from abstract symbols to algebra specific symbols while teaching the fundamentals of balancing and equation and isolating variables.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to see how they transition kids in to real world applications of these skills to see if the knowledge transfers to solving word problem or if the skills remain isolated in game play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tJIQznlv3Bk[\/youtube] Dragon Box: Algebra game Integration: Available across platforms (Android, Windows, ipad) Motivation: Unlocking levels.\u00a0 Fast progression.\u00a0 Dragon rewards for leveling up. Audience: Students, parents, teachers Content: Math: Algebra Learning and Mastery: Leveled learning.\u00a0 Moves from basic algebra concepts using pictures and rules and gradually replaces pictures with mathematical symbols. Base game Dragon Box +5c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[416333,1434413],"class_list":["post-11608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-416333","tag-gbl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions\/20858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}