
Math Blaster!
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Search complete. 8 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Math Blaster!".
Sep 22, 2026
Can Kids Build Their Own A.I.? Reinventing Learning with Yasmin Kafai
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3:15Yasmin KafaiGUEST
And I adapted this to having students actually to create math games.
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3:20Yasmin KafaiGUEST
So rather than to use the off-the-shelf software like Math Blaster, Rockets, whatever was out there, they became the designers of all the stories, of all the math problems.
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3:33Yasmin KafaiGUEST
And once a month, they would meet with the third graders who would give them critical, constructive feedback on what was working, what was not working in their software.
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3:42Yasmin KafaiGUEST
And we found in comparing their learning of programming that this was a much more effective approach to learn about coding.
Evilspeak (1981)
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24:07EricHOST
You have died of dysentery.
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24:09EricHOST
Math Blaster, all those freaking cool games back in the day.
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24:14EricHOST
But what it didn't have was the Satan OS operating system, apparently, which Cooper Smith had on his computer that would translate Latin for you and also summon the devil.
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24:30EricHOST
Yeah.
DOOM, Part 2: Won't somebody please think of the deadlines?
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39:04Kate LynchHOST
Yeah, I did the nice educational games as a small child.
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39:07Kate LynchHOST
I did like the Math Blaster and the various sim type games.
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39:11Kate LynchHOST
I wasn't blowing away naked goblins or anything like that.
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39:16Matt ShoemakerGUEST
I mean, number munchers had its own devious intent there.
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39:19Matt ShoemakerGUEST
I mean, those little creatures trying to stop you from munching numbers.
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39:23Kate LynchHOST
Yeah, that's true.
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39:24Kate LynchHOST
And I think the character in Math Blaster had like a pretty solid weapon, you know, to rival the Doom guy, perhaps.
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39:29Kevin ImpellizeriHOST
I feel like every 90s kid who had a computer had that one educational game that they played for a very, very long time.
E29 Proud to Gayme - Caitlin Feeley: Games, Identity, and Learning
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14:32Danielle ReynoldsHOST
[chuckles]
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14:32Caitlin FeeleyGUEST
... wa- was Math Blaster.
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14:34Caitlin FeeleyGUEST
And to be fair-
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14:34Danielle ReynoldsHOST
Oh my God, I was just thinking Math Blaster.
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14:36Caitlin FeeleyGUEST
Math Blaster!
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14:37Danielle ReynoldsHOST
It's amazing.
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14:37Danielle ReynoldsHOST
I also totally played that game.
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14:40Caitlin FeeleyGUEST
We, yes, we, yes, we did, and it was super fun 'cause they let you blow things up in class, and it was so great.