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[|Teaching with Nintendo Wii]

Now this is what I call an awesome school activity. For someone who was once a video gamer, this would be a great way to get students motivated playing video games, yet creating a pretty good math project. They were using the Wii to play the different sport games. They were then using these to incorporate them into different math problems. For example, they were using bowling to find out averages of the class, boys, or girls. They also created hypothesis to find out whether people who played video games, people who played sports, bowling with your dominant hand, and if boys would all create higher scores. This is a great way to get a lot of data and work on analyzing datat. They also talked about how they could turn this into a field trip to the bowling alley, playing baseball or tennis on the playground. They also talked about having parents coming in and comparing scores of parents to the students. This seems like a project that would really get students involoved and learning how to collect and analyze data while having fun. This would be fun to try with a 4th or 5th grade class when you are working with that kind of math figuring.