Washington teacher Tammie Schrader is very enthusiastic about computer games in education. She thinks they can be used to teach programming skills which will help students to learn in middle school. Canadian teacher Justin Holladay wrote

　　a few simple games to help his students practice math skills.When the games became popular, he started his own company

　　to create more of them.And the University of Washington's Zoran Popovic got more than 4，000 Washington students to

　　master linear equations (方程)

　　this spring by playing a computer game for just a few hours.ired interests in games for serious purposes.

　　“Six or seven years ago，selling games to schools was brutal(唐突的) rested in the promise of games.Software and education companies have tried for many years to combine youngsters' passion for computer games with educational progress，without much success.Zoran Popovic thinks the first efforts to combine games with education fell_flat because they were created by commercial companies.These companies were more interested in selling products than seeing students master a skill.

　　Teachers say there are some pretty good games in the marketplace now.Holladay，a math teacher from Alberta，Canada，began moving paper­based math games to the iPad，building games that allowed students to compete with each other and give him instant feedback on their progress. The games reinforced (加强) the lessons he was teachinghad fun playing.He said，“They were a lot more engaged.”

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