Angelina G. González Peralta
Juan Gabriel Molina Zavaleta
Mario Sánchez Aguilar
Abstract. The purpose of this manuscript is to increase our knowledge about
the potential offered by the use of strategy games to promote useful skills in
problem solving. We report the results of a study conducted at the undergraduate,
where students engaged in a two-player game called “circle of coins”. We analyze
the games played by four students. The main contributions include are: 1) identifying
the specific strategies used by each of the players to try to win the games
and 2) the conditions under which these strategies arose. In addition, 3) we
argued that the practice of strategy games could encourage the development of
heuristics useful in solving mathematical problems.
Keywords: playful activities, undergraduate education, strategies, educational
games, mathematics education.
DOI: 10.24844/EM2902.07
