Significant Digits

An Interactive Science Story

This adventure game not only explains the rules of significant digits in science but gives students tons of practice of those rules, focusing on the particularly challenging ones.

Students get immediate feedback on whether they’re correct (with high-stakes story consequences!)

This game is a great sub-day activity, or as a fun review before a test, or even as the introduction to the unit (with some basic instructions first, although the game has those, too, plus an answer to the omnipresent “Why do we have to learn this?” question). It includes scaffolding to explain the rules if students forget.

Like all the great non-linear stories, there are many possible endings, which encourages repeated playthroughs, which encourages repetition and practice!

Students play a potentially nefarious sorcerer who has had his magic powers taken away by a society of librarians. The library itself speaks to him in his head as a sort of safety mechanism, limiting his actions. He has successfully broken into that library and is attempting to reclaim his lost powers.

But the library itself is careening towards destruction. The librarian has accidentally opened a portal to another dimension, and monsters are flooding the library. Destroying this portal is itself impossible without creating a time-loop.

Can you reclaim your powers, defeat the monsters, avoid the librarian’s double-bladed axe, and end the time loop?

Enter the library to find out…

Content Note: The librarian may kill you, the library explodes, you fight some monsters in a mild, general way.