Fraction Division Tape
While at MIND, I was challenged to design a novel fraction-divided-by-a-fraction game that would be radically different than what was already in our stable of games. Whereas the previous games had been very abstract, with the only visual being context-less fractional bars, my game Fraction Division Tape felt hands-on, and engaged students with a real-world context. The students' screen view was rendered as if they were looking down at their own desk, at a roll of washi tape with a repeated image (e.g., a panther) and a school supply (e.g., notebook) that they wanted to decorate with the washi tape... I designed an interactive landscape where the students could intuit that they were to click on and unfurl the washi tape, determine its pattern-unit length and then figure out (by doing, and then by calculation) how many of that pattern would fit across the desk item they were virtually decorating.