Ko's Journey
© 2011 Imagine Education
Released November 2011, Ko’s Journey is a Flash-based, browser delivered online math game, designed to embed math in the context of the story. According to press materials, the story starts as Ko, an ancient girl, embarks on an arduous journey and rite of passage to seek out her family under the guidance of her Grandfather's spirit. As Ko plans her travels, searches for food and finds friends, players discover how to use coordinate systems (e.g., to find the North Star), calculate ratios, and utilize basic algebraic equations. The site targets middle-school math and could be used in school or in the home, say for home schooling. Pricing is as follows: individual (1 student/1 parent admin): $49.00; homeschool (2 students/1 parent admin): $79.00; school: $749.00 and up. The original math game design was written by a public school math teacher in the Andes mountains. Ko, as it was then called, became a semester-long classroom math game played with stone totems on hand-painted deer hides. Created by Imagine Education (Scott Laidlaw and Jennifer Lightwood), BNP Games and Cube2Media LLC.
$49, Windows, Mac OSX, Internet Site
Teaches: math, logic, problem solving