We participated in the Rikon festival with two activities: Math escape – virtual escape room and Treasure hunt – a treasure hunt based on cryptography.

We are happy to present an article by V. Mikulić Crnković, M. Holenko Dlab, B. Crnković, I. Traunkar (2024). [ai] Explore!: An Educational Game for Developing Programming Skills and Algorithmic Thinking published in Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learn, doi: https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2866

In this article, we describe [ai] explore game as an educational game and its implementation in Scratch.

We presented the SciMaG game [ai] explore at the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning (https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecgbl/) held from October 2nd until October 4th, 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark.

We are happy that this year we participated in Researcher’s Night in Rijeka, Croatia with four stations with several games and puzzles: Tangram and Escher puzzles, [ai] explore! game, Assemble and play sudoku, Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm, Discover the number pi (new!), Break the code using evolution (new!), Archimedes and Penrose tiling (new!), and Crystal puzzle (new!).

Find out more here!

We participated in the Math Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. We presented several activities: Pi treasure hunt, Cryptography treasure hunt, [ai] explore game, story Platonic solids game, Prepare & play sudoku, Escher type puzzle, and mathematical card tricks.

We presented SciMaG games, STEM park Rijeka, and [ai] explore exhibition through Lightning talk and the Showcase as a part of the Matrix x Imaginary conference, held from August 31st until September 4st 2024 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

Bojan Crnkovoić and Vedrana Mikulić Crnković held a poster presentation at the European Congress of Mathematics in Sevilla, 15-19 July, 2024. The poster title The exhibition and the games -An interdisciplinary approach to teaching and promoting mathematics.

We held a cycle of workshops titled Mathematics and Games for the participants of the program Budi++, CTK Rijeka.

Precisely, we held 5 workshops, from 1.7.2024. until 5.7.2024. and some titles were: Mathematical games and puzzles, Assemble and play sudoku, Sudoku in Scratch, Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm, and Treasure hunt in the Pi rhythm in Scratch.

We are happy to present the book chapter by Crnković, B., Mikulić Crnković, V., Traunkar, I. (2024):The Exhibition, Games and Virtual Reality – Technologies in Math Education. In: Volarić, T., Crnokić, B., Vasić, D. (eds) Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Application. MoStart 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2124. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62058-4_1.

In the presented work, we described the two variants of the [ai] explore! game, developed within the SciMaG project.

During the last couple of months, we conducted a threshold concept discussion in Rijeka, Croatia.

The aim is to identify threshold concepts in mathematics, informatics, and physics. We organized several meetings with teachers of these subjects, presented the SciMaG project, and discussed the threshold concepts.