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📣 amichail

Why isn't math education motivated by its application to video games?


For example, why not motivate linear algebra through its application to making 3d video games? And of course, linear algebra assignments could involving coding such games.


  👤 tssva Accepted Answer ✓
While the application to video game development may be a motivation for some there is a large segment of those taking math education, possibly the majority, for which video games and video game development holds little to no interest. Orienting math education around video games may actually be demotivating to many of them.

👤 xigoi
Because not all people are interested in making video games? If one is, surely it's not hard to find out which parts of math you need for it.

👤 sharemywin
Even 2d for algebra.

X=X+1

inequalities for bounds checking.