Learning Problem-Solving Strategies by Using Math …

Learning ProblemSolving Strategies by

Using Games

David Moursund

Learning Problem-solving Strategies by Using Games: A Guide for Educators

and Parents

David Moursund

(Email: moursund@uoregon.edu)

This book is available for free online use and download. Website: .

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Cite this book as: Moursund, D. (2016). Learning Problem-solving Strategies by Using Games: A Guide for Educators and Parents. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Available online at .

Publisher: Information Age Education: Eugene, Oregon, USA. See . Copyright ? 2016 David Moursund. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US). See .

About David Moursund, Author

David Moursund, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, College of Education, University of Oregon

Email: moursund@uoregon.edu

? Doctorate in mathematics (numerical analysis) from University of Wisconsin-Madison, January, 1963.

? Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computing Center (School of Engineering), Michigan State University, 1963-1967.

? Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computing Center, University of Oregon, 1967-1969.

? Served six years as the first Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Oregon, 1969-1975.

? Promoted to Full Professor, University of Oregon 1976.

* Retired in 2002, with the last 20 years of his service to the UO being in the College of Education. After retirement, worked 1/3 time in the UO College of Education 2002-2007.

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? In 1974, started The Computing Teacher, the publication that eventually became Learning and Leading with Technology, the flagship publication of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

? Served on the Board of Directors of the Math Learning Center (MLC) since the MLC's inception in 1977.

? In 1979, founded the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Headed this organization for 19 years.

? In 2007, founded the Information Age Education (IAE), an Oregon non-profit organization. IAE works to improve the informal and formal education of people of all ages throughout the world. and website. See and .

? Author or co-author of about 65 books and several hundred articles in the fields of computers in education and math education. About 40 of the books are available free online at .

? Presented over 200 workshops and many talks in the fields of computers in education and math education.

? Served as a major professor for 82 doctoral students (six in Math, the rest in Education). See .

? For more information about David Moursund, go to and .

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ann Lathrop for her work in copy-editing the book and her many content suggestions for the book.

A substantial part of the content of this new book was originally published in: Moursund, D. (2007.) Introduction to using games in education: A guide for teachers and parents. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. The book is available for free download. Microsoft Word file: . PDF file: .

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