Skint to Mint is an investment game created by the reserve bank. Their agenda was to create a learning tool to teach about credit ratings. Their idea is that kids will learn it and take that information home. Early in the design process they decided that they had to teach all about risk and benefit to get the idea across. The outcome was a well produced and fun to play game.
The game mechanics covers probability, percentages, estimation and evaluation as well as a host of basic numeracy skills. The game is reasonably complex and will require some pre-teaching to get running in a classroom. It was recommended to get the students used to all the cards first as a class before starting play. Ideally the game should be played several times to give students a chance to develop their strategy.
I can see this being useful for juniors to develop and practice numeracy and percentage skills. It will fit in very well with PMF and will probably be a good game for any applied class. There is a lot that would be interesting for the more academic classes but it will probably be more important to cover things needed for the exams.
We will have five copies delivered hopefully mid December.
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