What is Mangahigh.com?
Mangahigh.com is one of the world’s first games-based-learning sites, where students learn Mathematics via purpose-built casual games that balance fun and learning.
Who is involved?
Mangahigh was founded by an experienced team of mathematicians and game specialists who strive to balance game play and education. To find out more about us, please visit about us.
What is Games-Based Learning?
Games-Based Learning fuses computer games and academic subjects to provide a compelling and exciting supplement to traditional pedagogy. Many scientific studies have shown that students perform better with the help of games-based learning.
Why is Mangahigh.com so effective?
Mangahigh is proven to be effective for the following reasons:
- Adaptive:
Each game covers certain learning topics and is designed to dynamically adapt in difficulty to the ability of the student in order to aid the student to stay in their zone of proximal development i.e. “
the level of difficulty that is neither too hard nor too easy, and is the level at which optimal learning takes place
” (Renaissance Learning, 2007).- Automaticity:
“is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice”
(Wikipedia).All Mangahigh games have a meta-objective that the players strive to achieve by repeating a simple step (game mechanic) over and over again. By overlaying the game mechanic with the core learning concept, we’ve invented the new and more efficient way of learning for the new generation.
- Discipline and self-learning:
Games develop student’s ability and curiosity to observe, hypothesise, test, evaluate, conclude and refine ideas that are not always possible with traditional pedagogic teaching.
- Application of theory:
The games provide powerful contexts that often bring out the ‘real-world’ application of the topic at hand, thereby increasing the student’s interest in the content and encouraging them to explore further.
What is unique about Mangahigh.com?
The educational content within Mangahigh is at secondary school level and is delivered through its proprietary educational games. Each game covers certain learning topics and is designed to dynamically adapt in difficulty to the ability of the student in order to make the user experience engaging, entertaining and personal.
What subjects does it cover?
Mangahigh offers only Mathematics.
Does it have a presence in my country?
Mathematics is a universal subject and Mangahigh.com is a global product. For now, all the content is in English, however we will launch localised versions of our product over time. If you would like any specific information about Mangahigh.com in your country or language, please get in touch with us at: sales@mangahigh.com
Who can join Mangahigh?
The site is targeted towards 10-16 year olds in secondary school. However, anyone with a desire to improve their Mathematics ability can join Mangahigh.com and will benefit from it. Educators get their own login, where they can track the progress of their students. To get started, logon to http://www.mangahigh.com
What topics are covered?
Mangahigh will cover all the topics in secondary school Mathematics.
What is a To-do list?
The To-do list is a set of activities that Mangahigh.com recommends as preparation for the GCSE exam. Mangahigh generates a To-Do list based on a student’s performance and progress versus their personal goals. The To-Do list can be adjusted by the student to allow for topics already covered in the classroom or at home.
What is an Achievement?
Users earn Achievements by completing specific curriculum-aligned tasks while playing Mangahigh games. A single Bronze Achievement reflects an incident of demonstrated User competency, and Gold and Silver Achievements reflect repetition of that Achievement.
What is a Lesson?
A lesson constitutes one learning topic in Mathematics. For example, calculating the area of a circle.
Can I customize the curriculum to be like my school's?
Only ‘members’ at Mangahigh.com can customize their learning experience. Members can ‘skip’ lessons that they have already covered and can ‘switch’ years in order to attempt lessons from the years above or below their selected year.
To skip or un-skip any lesson that appears on the to-do list, the member need to toggle the lesson status.
To change the difficuilty of the to-do list, member needs to select "change level" from the level display on your to-do list.
Additionally, members can browse, filter and sort all lessons, for all years, through the curriculum management tool in the curriculum section.
