Gamers, you are mathematician.

Video game, in my opinion, is probably the most entertaining form of Mathematics. Game is a set of problems that challenges the player in order to achieve numerous goals. If you think about it carefully, every single game has this property. Whether you’re playing a Tetris or the latest Assassin’s Creed saga, you as a gamer are solving problems that the game has to offer.

Back to the textbooks, we learned a mixture of new techniques and equations in order to solve relevant problems. I remembered learning Algebra in order to solve applied questions such as “How much Bob contributed to the saving account after 3 months?” In video games, the player is provided a set of instructions, rules, options, and the outcomes. The video game starts teaching you from the basic moves to advanced actions so that you can tackle game objectives with what you can do from the tutorial.

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