Loco Roco Better Than Books
In some cases anyway. A school in the city of Japan’s Chiba is giving way to a new method of teaching their fractions.
With Sony Computer Entertainment by their side, the non-profit organization ACE - the Association of Corporate and Education - came up with a way of teaching multiplication and division of fractions to children using the LocoRoco characters to explain problems that make these kids scratch their heads in angst.
The aim of the session was to explain the method logically so that students would understand why the method works. The overall fanciful presentation was based around a Flash game with the LocoRoco characters following a story that saw the concepts being explained, followed by worksheets for practice. Fun.
