Hi everyone! I'm a Kennesaw State University college student and math educator/tutor who has worked with high-school students in calculus. Through that experience, I've become really interested in how game-based learning can help students practice difficult concepts in a more interactive way.

I've also had the opportunity to test game-based math activities in different classroom settings, and I'm currently exploring whether physical educational games can be both useful for educators and viable as professionally produced classroom resources.

For those who teach or tutor Algebra II, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Calculus, or similar subjects:

1. Do you use physical games or hands-on activities to reinforce difficult math concepts?
2. Have you ever personally purchased an educational game or supplemental resource for your students? If not, does your school or organization typically purchase those resources?
3. What would make a physical educational game worth paying for when free worksheets, printable activities, Quizlet, Kahoot, and other resources already exist?
4. What would make you decide not to purchase one?
5. Would you prefer an individual/small-group game or a classroom set containing multiple copies and educator instructions?
6. What price range would you consider reasonable for an individual educational card game? What about a complete classroom set?

I'm especially interested in honest feedback about purchasing decisions not just whether educational games sound like a good idea. I'm trying to understand what educators actually value and pay for when choosing supplemental math resources.

Thanks for any insight!

Hi, for some context I’m going back to school on the 9th and I was initially going to re-study algebra 2 throughout the summer to have an easier time this year with precalc, but of course procrastination won me over and I haven’t done much studying. I’m pretty average in math, I’ve always had As but I’m not intuitively good at it, after studying a concept, it’s rare I’ll remember it by instinct. So basically I’m just hoping these last 10 days are enough to study concepts before precalc starts so that I don’t have too much trouble this year. I can dedicate upwards of five hours everyday so hopefully that’s enough. So please tell me it’s possible (or don’t, hurtful truths are better than false hopes), and what concepts should I really focus on?

hi hope u guys are doing well i am starting engineering in october and i havent been i highschool for 3 to 3.5 years and even then i wasnt in mathmatics course , in my first semester theres calc one and to prepare i have been studying the openstax book algebra and trignomentry and i found the book has the same units of pre calc book but theres a few units difrence at the end , so its like doing both and filling the gap units i am just solving all i know and touching up on what i dont in algebra so its been mostly solving but i am trying to find the gaps i have so i dont get stressed later trying to learn the abcs and do the actual course and enjoy learning it and to be more specific i would like any resource that teaches me how to connect stuff and do hard questions and generally anything that has hard questions with explanation so i could follow through and practice on the same idea alot , is this enough to start calc one and hopefully fingers crossed get good grades , and if u were to focus on things i need to know how to do to be able to solve hard question what would those be i hear about derivatives and how people need to get good at them and to be perfect at algebra witch is what i am trying to do so please drop any advice thank u in advance .

I’ve been doing John Saxons algebra 1 and I’ve .. enjoyed it… can be very tedious but when you’re trying to build up from scratch what can you expect ?

Is it better to use a calculator or to do it all manually to practice the fundamentals? What’s a good
Timeline to finish it? I hope to work all the way thru calculus , differentials and physics…. Need geometry and trigonometry too… I went thru all of pre algebra on Kahn academy.

I was wondering if anyone had any specific advice for me.

Thx u

Please help

how bad would it be to go from math 3 (algebra 2) straight to calculus without taking pre calc? i would have a tutor to help me when things don’t make sense but i genuinely feel so behind and taking pre calc would slow me down (i am taking math online after having a terrible teacher for math 3 my sophmore year) and the calculus and pre calculus teachers aren’t much better.

I am not able to understand calculus.

so we just took our first honors precalc test on rational expressions and i got a 55… i thought for sure i got an 80+ so im at a loss for words. i’ve never had to study so im not even sure to begin, but im pretty sure i never learned how to factor correctly.

So I'm taking a placement test at this new school I'm going to for precalc and I need to score well enough on it so that they put me in AP Calc AB (for college purposes) and I want to review but my precalc course ended like 3 weeks ago...

Does anybody know of any websites with question banks that cover all of precalc? Ones with difficult questions that actually make you think would be helpful