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Methods and apparatus for educating

a technology of expression formation and method, applied in the field of methods and apparatuses for educating, can solve the problems of often banned games from the classroom and general frowned upon playing such games in educational settings

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-08
FERGUSON TODD B
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Although fantasy card games have proven to be very popular with children and young adults, such games are often banned from the classroom, because they lack formal educational value, and can be distracting from the prescribed coursework.
Because students that play these games often become preoccupied with the games instead of focusing on their studies, the playing of such games in educational settings is generally frowned upon.

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[0017]In a preferred embodiment, such as illustrated in FIGS. 1-17, an educational game comprises a plurality of game components, such as playing or trading cards 20, each having educational information disposed thereon. The educational information is preferably in the form of expression portions, such as letters of the alphabet, or alternatively numbers and mathematical operators, although other educational information may be utilized in other forms in accordance with the invention. The playing cards 20 preferably have character information disposed thereon to make the cards suitable for collecting. Generally, the playing cards 20 are utilized by one or more users in an ordered fashion to form an expression comprised of expression portions from each of the cards played. In one form, the expression may be a word formed by individual letters 20e (FIGS. 1, 3 and 4) disposed on each card. In another form, the expression may be a mathematical expression formed from operators and operand...

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A method of educating includes providing a collectible trading card game with a plurality of trading cards. Each card may contain educational information including a consonant, vowel, number or mathematical operator and the cards are used to form a properly spelled word or to form a mathematically correct equation. In some forms, the method includes providing a game with a playing field and a set of game components with game component types having a predetermined power for affecting play of the game by affecting a power, effect, or value of the game component. The level of skill necessary to play the game may be varied by selectively implementing or disregarding the predetermined power of the game components. An educational game includes first and second game components with different expressions, powers, point values, and identifiers for distinguishing game components and facilitating game play.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 12 / 492,842 filed Jun. 26, 2009, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 076,506 filed Jun. 27, 2008, which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for educating, and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses for educating using an expression-forming game.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Collectible and trading card games are well known in the art and have proven to be very successful with children and adults of all ages. Such games are normally played using a deck of cards, which may be expanded through purchase of expansion sets, or buying or trading individual cards. Additional cards may also be obtained through winning cards from an opponent during game play. Examples of such games include “battle” games, wherein two or more players compete against one ano...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63F1/02A63F3/00
CPCA63F2001/0441A63F3/04
Inventor FERGUSON, TODD B.GOODMAN, RICHARD
Owner FERGUSON TODD B
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