Re: [Tuxmath-devel] trial and error method

[Xandru A. <xa...@so...>]

I agree Bruce, is a good way.
I like your "dark" option too :) but not for my students.
El 24/03/2011 20:51, "David Bruce" <dav...@gm...> escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Xandru Armesto <xa...@so...>
wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I've been watching my students playing with TuxMath in classroom
(primary)
>> and I've noticed that some children one solve operations by trial and
error
>> (just on lower levels, of course).
>> I think that a possible feature for TuxMath could be a "temperature
sensor
>> laser" witch increase when you fail a lot of shots and decrease when you
do
>> well. If the sensor reaches a certain temperature shoot won't be possible
>> for a certain time.
>>
>> What do you think? Is this possible? Any other solution?
>
> I've thought about having the player lose points for misses, which is
> probably the best way. Having misses affect gameplay, as you suggest,
> would make it more effective. We should do something like that.
>
> I've also thought of more drastic approaches, like having wrong
> answers result in a laser "misfire" that zaps one of the player's
> igloos or penguins, but I think that would be too "dark" for our
> intended audience ;)
>
> David