Wii activities can be engaging, student-friendly data production tools that generate scores, times, and rankings for students to explore and discuss in the mathematics classroom. As students play the games, their teacher has an opportunity to guide them through rich dialogues, posing questions to elicit mathematical thinking.
Meghan Hearn is an adjunct professor at Notre Dame University of Maryland and a math support teacher at Veterans Elementary School in Ellicott, Maryland.
Matthew C. Winner is a library media specialist at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland. An avid gamer, he also blogs at The Busy Library (busy librarian.com).