Do you remember playing a ‘heritage game' called congkak as a child? Did you enjoy playing that game? It is a simple game and while you can play the game using beautifully handcrafted and expensive congkak boards, you can also improvise (like I did as child) using condensed milk tins. It is play, but it is also a strategy game where to win the game you have to plot to outmanoeuvre your opponent. Little children learn to count, add and subtract, using those glass marbles. Strategy games like congkak also involves play, which of course we do not do in classrooms.  But as I remarked earlier there is a growing school of thought that more should be made of the opportunities video games present in the classroom.  

Figure 4.4 Congkak

I would like you to read pp 3-7 of Moving Learning Games Forward and answer the questions listed.