{"id":4345,"date":"2018-01-08T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:19:16","slug":"tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/08\/tetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have played quite a lot of video game in my childhood. One which is memorable, it is a tile-matching puzzle game called \u201cTetris\u201d. I got my first handheld Tetris game in 1990.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t remember being a fan of puzzle by then. However, when I started playing this game. I loved the rewards in the form of bonus points and the destruction\u2019s special effects when a set of tiles were well organized. Every time I was playing this game, I always felt that I was becoming a better player. Once I reached a level in the game, the next time I will reach the same level or end on a level above. What fascinated me most in this game was my ability to see how I was becoming skilful. I played the tetris game till I reached the point where nine times out of ten, I will complete all the levels of the game. This is when I stopped playing. I was just doing it occasionally mostly when I wanted to show off.<\/p>\n

By reflecting on this experience, I wish I could create a Calculus game that will have the same effect on my students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have played quite a lot of video game in my childhood. One which is memorable, it is a tile-matching puzzle game called \u201cTetris\u201d. I got my first handheld Tetris game in 1990. I don\u2019t remember being a fan of puzzle by then. However, when I started playing this game. I loved the rewards in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-auto-e-graphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}