The Math Game “Doors”

This article was created by 8th grade students Elly, Emmy, and Richard M.

During the second semester in math, our Math teachers  made a brilliant and fun game. Where there was a point system with dopamine being a point system. We and the whole class found this system exciting and rewarding. With doors as checkpoints and dopamine as points. There was a perfect reward, not writing the final assessment and getting the highest grade in math on our report card.

We all had a chance to win, and we could take extra work if we were behind or wanted to get further. Everyone had the same conditions to win. The teachers were helpful and did their best to help every child equally.

The game has many different doors and in them, there were different exercises like ratios, graphs, algebra, expanding brackets, word problems, etc.

In the beginning, we could make our character which would represent us on which door we were so no one would be confused. If you didn’t make your character our  teacher  would give you one character. So students made their characters some didn’t. We had homework and people who didn’t do it lost some of their dopamine.

 In the test, we had to use what we learned in the practice to solve the problem Teachers didn’t give us the exact, but they gave us hints to solve the problem independently.

This game was entertaining for us. We could chat with our friends and learn. Everyone was doing their work, trying to find the doors they were at and move next door.  We were doing our best to achieve first place. Every person had fun from my point of view.

The game was also fair to all people because some students were sick so the teachers extended the game so the people who were sick could catch up with others. Everyone could ask for extra work so they could be the best who would not write the test. Some students did not take this advantage and decided not to take the extra work which resulted in them not winning.

Over all, we liked this Idea and would like to see these same games in the other classes.

P.S.

For my part, I would like to add that the first student to pass through all the 21 doors and collect the most dopamine was Emilia, then Emmy, Ellie, Richard M, Richard K, Martin. Milana, Lexin, Anna, Adam, Alex, Viktoria, Nikita were very close to the last door when the game ended, and they showed their high motivation to gain deep knowledge and strong will on the way to victory. I am proud of you, Y8!