Fraction Caves Project

By: Marshun, Gavin and Kris

Meet the Team

Developers

• Marshun Williams
• Gavin Holmes
• Kristofer Swanson

Educators

• Becca Montgomery
• Makayla Schluter
• Elizabeth Ricke

Project Goals and Motivations

• Create an educational practice tool
• Provide students with meaningful practice using fractions
• Give teachers new options to engage and teach students

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• Practical skills practice for planning, designing and collecting data
• Respond to the growing need for remote education materials

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Customer Requirements vs. Engineering Specs

Lesson Overview

This minecraft world helps students practice using fractions, specifically reducing them, adding and subtracting them. Each of the previous topics is covered in a room of each cave. After a student answers the question they acquire a lever which allows them to progress to the next room until they reach the final activity where they combine their skills from earlier to build a place to call home on the surface.

How It meets Customer Needs

The game meets customer needs by providing two ways students can show teachers their work, provides clear instructions, has a variety of questions of varying difficulty, and has questions focused on educational standards for building and using fractions.

Lesson Construction

• Unbreakable Blocks
• Items available for representing fractions
• Game Settings

DFMEA Concerns

• Progression path is clear
• No physical barriers impeding progression or use
• Too easy for students and becomes boring
• Unclear answers/ too difficult questions
• Output for grading produced
• Is lesson practical alternative to current methods

Future Work

What needs improvements?

• Features preventing users to access the rest of the world
• Improve variety of presentation
• Expand the world and problems for students
• Revisit game settings for fine tuning

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Testing

Testing Package

• Observer document
• Student Survey
• Non student Survey