The Webinar on Math and Videogames took place on Thursday, March 11th, 2021 from 2 pm until 3 pm, with Jorge Mejia, high school math teacher in Mexico, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event by pointing out that the purpose of the game of minesweeper which was created in 1998 was to teach computer users the button controls of the mouse. Jorge Mejia also described the videogame of Minecraft and explained about object-oriented programming. The speaker also related the game with sets, functions, graphs and other math concepts.
