I am studious, too.

For him, it simply has that "huge potential" for students' learning process. Said the Secretary to the Royal Society on maths and science last week, "Computer games developed by Marcus du Sautoy are enabling children to engage with complex mathematical problems that would hitherto have been thought too advanced. When children need to solve equations in order to get more ammo to shoot the aliens, it is amazing how quickly they can learn."

"I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and I know that Marcus himself has been thinking about how he might be able to create games to introduce advanced concepts, such as non-Euclidean geometry, to children at a much earlier stage than normal in schools."

Again, this is nothing new to us. We know that video games provide for more than sheer entertainment. It helps in improving eye-hand coordination, which is why pilots use flight sim games for their trainings. I personally would like to believe I got a better grasp of driving, thanks to Need for Speed: Underground. Still, it will be a long time before we'll see traditional school systems welcome video games as part of their curriculum.

The potential and possibilities are endless, though. Imagine completing a mission in, let's say, Mass Effect 3, which will hold the answer to your math homework! Now that ought to make studying a lot more fun, don't you think?

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