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Mar 9, 2021

Turning research into a product

How did we get to where we are now? BrainQuake started life as an initiative to take a promising body of university research in mathematics education and turn it into a product that could be made widely available to any student in the world, young or old. That history, coupled…

Recearch Based Design

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Turning research into a product
Turning research into a product
Recearch Based Design

4 min read


Dec 20, 2020

How do professional mathematicians solve problems?

Here is a simple-looking arithmetic puzzle you often come across in puzzle collections. How quickly can you solve it? (Normally I stress that mathematics is not about speed; indeed, most mathematicians I know work slowly, as do I. But this time it’s different. …

Game Based Learning

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How do professional mathematicians solve problems?
How do professional mathematicians solve problems?
Game Based Learning

7 min read


Nov 8, 2020

How can teachers use video games to teach math remotely in the time of COVID?

Faced with students having to learn remotely in their homes due to the pandemic, teachers need to find new ways to keep their students engaged. Educational video games provide an obvious mechanism. If well designed, they are both educational and highly engaging. …

Game Based Learning

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How can teachers use video games to teach math remotely in the time of COVID?
How can teachers use video games to teach math remotely in the time of COVID?
Game Based Learning

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Sep 14, 2020

Game-based math learning can open up new educational possibilities

One question we get asked from time to time from people who have enjoyed playing our launch app Wuzzit Trouble is whether that puzzle is part of our new BrainQuake app. The answer is a “Yes, but …” Wuzzit Trouble was a standalone mobile game that presented players with 75…

Mathematics Education

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Game-based math learning can open up new educational possibilities
Game-based math learning can open up new educational possibilities
Mathematics Education

4 min read


Sep 7, 2020

What is an educational video-game?

Like many other companies, BrainQuake often describes our lead products as educational games. But what does that mean, exactly? It seems like a simple question that will have an equally simple answer: surely, an educational game is one where a player learns something by playing the game. But that can’t…

Game Based Learning

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What is an educational video-game?
What is an educational video-game?
Game Based Learning

3 min read


Aug 30, 2020

Hard Fun

At BrainQuake we develop “hard fun” math-learning activities. But what exactly does that term “hard fun” mean? It’s certainly not our term. …

Mathematics Education

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Hard Fun
Hard Fun
Mathematics Education

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Aug 23, 2020

Sir Ken Robinson and the Call for Creativity

Just as I was getting ready to write this week’s blogpost, the news came out that the fabled, British-born, education thought-leader Sir Kenneth Robinson had died, aged 70. Along with many educators, we at BrainQuake have been greatly influenced by Robinson. His thinking about education, especially in relation to creativity…

Sir Ken Robinson

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Sir Ken Robinson and the call for Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson and the call for Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson

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Aug 15, 2020

What James Paul Gee Taught Us About Video-Game Learning

In 2003, Professor James Paul Gee, a cognitive scientist who at that time was a profes­sor of reading at the University of Wisconsin, published a thought-provoking book titled What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. That same year, I and two colleagues at Stanford University organized…

Game Based Learning

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What James Paul Gee Taught Us About Video-Game Learning
What James Paul Gee Taught Us About Video-Game Learning
Game Based Learning

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Aug 9, 2020

The psychological and social elements of good learning

One of the known benefits of game-based learning is that, providing the game is designed and constructed sufficiently well, it can help students adopt a positive and confident attitude towards the subject the game is intended to develop mastery in— in our case mathematics, with our particular focus being the…

Mathematics Education

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The psychological and social elements of good learning
The psychological and social elements of good learning
Mathematics Education

5 min read


Aug 1, 2020

How do people use math today?

I don’t know the answer to that question. Other than to say they use it in lots of different ways. I can say that, in many cases, people use math without knowing it, since we have succeeded in creating mathematical tools that where the math is completely hidden. Google is…

Game Based Learning

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How do people use math today?
How do people use math today?
Game Based Learning

3 min read

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