Computer science majors at the University of Delaware are designing math and reading games for real life use by students at Chester Community Charter School.
Terry Harvey is the assistant professor of computer. He calls the experience 'invaluable' to students.
Terry Harvey: "Giving undergraduate students real life problems to program is a much better educational experience for them."
In creating games like MathAdder, grad student Rich Burns says there's all kinds of things to think about..
Rich Burns: "Little things like instructions are really important. The little things that you don't want to think of, you just want to make the game more fun."
Professor Lori Pollock has been teaching this since 2009. She says the classes and the games have come a long way.
Lori Pollock: "I know the first semester they played the games for maybe five minutes, and then they were off and bored. So that's kind of our indicator is how long they'll play."
The games may even be used in Australia through the One Laptop per Child program.
Lori Pollock: "Our students are very excited about it. For them, the whole thought that they could maybe count the number of downloads of their games that they've created was just another level of, 'Oh we have all these people interested in something I created.'"
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