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Kathy Berry's avatar

Wordle is a version of the 1970s game Mastermind, too. As 5th graders we played Mastermind every indoor recess we had. We loved "making the code ", choosing 4 pegs out of a stock of 6 colors, having up to 10 tries to deduce the code, and hoping the codemaster would place red and white pegs next to our guess (the green and yellow letters in Wordle). We learned a lot of If-Then reasoning.

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James Tanton's avatar

Just love this! My colleague Raj Shah has been doing a lot of deep thinking on these lines, for sure.

Eg https://www.ted.com/talks/raj_shah_using_video_game_principles_to_improve_math_scores and https://grassrootsworkshops.com/workshops/how-to-make-math-more-like-video-games. Excited to see where all this will go in the times to come.

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