In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, it's crucial to rethink traditional approaches to learning mathematics. We often encounter math anxiety among students, hindering their engagement and learning outcomes. This anxiety stems from various factors, including fear of failure, perceived difficulty, and a lack of interest in the subject.

However, there's a powerful tool at our disposal: gamification. By integrating game elements into the learning process, we can create dynamic and immersive experiences that captivate students' attention, foster extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and alleviate math anxiety.

This workshop aims to transform the way we learn math by guiding you through the process of gamifying your mathematics courses. Most of the times the design and application of gamification is done by the teachers in the class. But students can also gamify their own learning independently to make math learning more enjoyable, engaging, inclusive and effective.

Games are a form of learning. You fail, and through failure, you learn how not to fail. Every game inherently involves a learning process.

Great books on the topic

The "Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook" by Kapp, Blair and Mesch is definetly the best "how to" on applying gamification in a real life context, step-by-step.

Some of the books may be also available free through your institutions.