TERC Director of Technology David Libby is confident that the new interface will please old and new fans alike. On August 3 rd, days before the relaunch, the National Science Foundation announced that it has awarded TERC with a three-year, $1.9 million research grant to study how students develop implicit knowledge of computational thinking with Zoombinis gameplay. Not only is this launch likely to thrill educators looking to improve their students’ deductive reasoning skills, but it will also be an essential component of a larger research project within the nonprofit to improve classroom teaching. TERC has partnered with FableVision Studios and The Learning Games Network to relaunch the original game for the tablets and touchscreens of the 21 st century. Time has changed for the Zoombinis in the past couple of decades and due to a wildly popular Kickstarter (raising over $100,000 for the project) and a new wave of developers, this classic favorite has finally been updated and released for iOS and Android!
Logical journey of the zoombinis math software#
The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, originally developed by the Technical Educational Research Center (TERC) and first released by Brøderbund Software in 1996, had us using logic, problem solving skills, and data analysis in order to get these little blue guys to their new home of Zoombiniton. If you grew up in the 90’s and 00’s, this prologue might seem all too familiar. Then one day, who should show up but The Bloats … The Zoombinis had a sense of fulfillment and inner peace, not to mention healthy bank accounts. And so they lived happily on Zoombini Isle making small, useful products, which were prized the world over. Such differences meant nothing to the Zoombinis. Though they all looked slightly different: different eyes, noses, hair, feet. Not too long ago, Zoombinis enjoyed the good life.
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