What is a flannel board or story board? Unless you’re blessed with a child who “takes” to learning like every parent dreams, the trick with the upper-grade school level and middle-school kids is to find a game that’s entertaining enough for the child to look past the fact that he’s learning.

The increasing understanding is that globalization is being reflected in an educational agenda that allows for various, and countless, improvements upon the education system that allows the educators themselves to expand on their teaching, and present students with real world situations that require them to “think outside the box”, or outside the realm of their particular field, if you will.

This Classroom 6-Pack is for a classroom of at least twelve students — the recommended ratio is two students per kit — and intended for use starting from middle school teachers onwards, looking for an extensive educational solution for learning how to use the Arduino platform.

The “think” games, the “Brain” games; the ones that track a kid’s IQ (or branded-equivalent) seem to last longest with children of all ages – the competitive nature inherent in an IQ-tracking game seems to stimulate and drive children, teens, and young adults to keep playing.

High stakes testing would be eliminated because most of the tests are designed by people who do not have a clue about the demographics, ethnicities or economic backgrounds of the students who are to be tested and these tests are biased against minorities and the poor.