Learn Calculus and Art in Video Games

If you were wishing there was a video game to teach you calculus, you're in luck. Triseum's "Variant" is a 3D world designed to do just that. Manipulate the environment around your character, using calculus and see real-world applications of abstract concepts!

Variant is a narrative based adventure game, that teaches you calculus as you progress. Game feedback and interaction allows the players to move forward at their own pace. Teachers can monitor student progression and provide help when needed. The game based learning environment helps to enhance the learning process. Games draw out great learning strategies in students, making the time spent learning a concept more effectively.

Student reactions to the Variant platform were overwhelmingly positive. However, Variant is not their first claim to fame. Triseum's first game "Mecenas", is designed to teach students aspects of art history at a college level while providing socioeconomic context for the different periods of art. The students play a member of the Medici family, in Italy, during the Renaissance. They manage political and economic dealings, as they work their way towards becoming a patron of the arts, or Mecenas.

Triseum plans to unveil a whole suite of art history based games, that will eventually cover all the content in a college-level course. As innovation in education continues, we might even see video game curriculum taking the place of college courses. Can you imagine people in the future getting a college degree from a game studio?

The art is from Triseum's Vimeo page and has an attributive license. Here are links to Triseum's games and Vimeo channel:
https://triseum.com/art-history/arte/mecenas/
https://triseum.com/calculus/variant/
https://vimeo.com/user52575725

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