At this age, many students in India are learning calculus. And they are not learning the product rule or integration by parts with a video game.<p>I wonder if you could motivate Johnny and Jane by showing them what Pradeep and Rajit, their future job competition, are up to.
Why can't they make some kind of role playing game where have to actually use math to progress in the game, for example calculate, slope, gravity etc for targetting, build a machine to up and incline, but you need to know the slope, etc.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. It does get kids to learn the material and makes it fun for them by adding competition and entertainment but I'm not sure this is good for the long term.<p>This is just addressing the wrong problem. These kids won't be interested in math for math's sake but are just doing to play a game - isn't it much better to get them interested in math without a need for games?