“Can I wait go to the hospital until after Math class?”

How can a math game initiate such a powerful change in perspective that students no longer choose to opt out of being attentive in math class? Florida Virtual School asked the same question in July of 2011 and partnered with Imagine Education to find the answers. Using funds secured from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, FLVS and IE expanded and refined the existing story-based adventure game, Ko’s Journey, and embarked on an ambitious pilot test in both the virtual and traditional 7th grade math classrooms. This revealing presentation will cover the basis of curriculum design and game integration as well as the results of attitudinal and performance data collected in during the eight-month pilot.