Presentations & Events
The Game On project team has participated in several professional developments for teachers and events for local students over the last year. Below is a listing of some of the activities we've participated in reverse chronological order.
Maryland Mentor Corp Workshop
October 27, 2026
Faculty advisor, Dana Grosser-Clarkson, and a undergraduate Terrapin Teachers student, Brooke Grissen, presented to members of the Maryland Mentor Corp chapter operating at the University of Maryland. The presentation introduced two printable math games, Number Hive and Multi, which can be used to support tutoring students with multiplication facts and procedural fluency.
Grosser-Clarkson, D. & Grissen, B. (2026, Oct 27). Printable games for tutoring: Developing procedural fluency. Invited workshop hosted by the University of Maryland Mentor Corps. College Park, MD.
College of Education Workshop
July 23, 2026
FMTC faculty advisor Dana Grosser-Clarkson and doctoral student Victoria Fernandez presented on the potential of using commercial board games in educational settings to a group of potential UMD students. Participants had a chance to play Deduckto and Skyjo during the workshop hosted by UMD's College of Education.
Grosser-Clarkson, D., Fernandez, V. (2026, July 23). Game On workshop: Exploring the potential of commercial games in education. Invited workshop hosted by the University of Maryland College of Education, College Park, MD.
Uteach STEM Educators Conference
May 19, 2026
Faculty advisor Dana Grosser-Clarkson, doctoral student Victoria Fernandez, and undergraduate student Mango Roehsler introduced a group of about 15 educators and pre-service teachers to Point Salad and explained the use of the game for structuring early field experiences. The presentation started with a play segment to introduce the game and ended with reflections from the pre-service teacher on the presentation team.
Grosser-Clarkson, D., Fernandez, V, & Roehsler, M. (2026, May 21). Game-based Early Field Experience: Exploring the Viability with Point Salad. Session presented at the 2026 UTeach STEM Educators Conference. Austin, Texas.
Maryland Day 2026
April 25, 2026
Terrapin Teachers hosted an event for Maryland Day which let families visit and play our games. 30+ people came throughout the day and played games ranging from Lost Cities to Abalone to Sky Team (pictured left, Victoria Fernandez playing Sky Team with child)
Early Career Teaching Conference 2026
Feburary 28, 2026
FMTC students Jillian Cline and Zoe Chabria presented on Point Salad at the annual Early Career Educator Conference (ECTC).
Cline, J. & Chabria, Z. (2026, Feb 28). Point Salad: A Veggie Based Approach to Algebra. Session presented at the 2026 Early Career Teaching Conference. College Park, MD.
UMD ETLA One Thing Confernece
August 6, 2025
Five members of the Game On project team introduced a room of about 50 Maryland educators to several games that could be introduced to students in educational settings (e.g., camps, aftercare, classrooms). In the first round participants could choose from Qwixx, Skyjo, Elimino, Deduckto, or Next Station London. In the second round participants selected from Point Salad, Kingdomino, No Thanks, SET, and Gobblet Gobblers/Achi.
Grosser-Clarkson, D., Miles, J., Fernandez, V., Chabria, Z & Johnson, J., (2025, August 6). Let’s play: Games that will push your K-12 students’ mathematical thinking. Session presented at the 2025 EdTerps Learning Academy conference. College Park, MD.
Slides available here
College Park Academy Summer Camp
July 21- August 1, 2025
Center for Mathematics Education (CfME) doctoral student, Victoria Fernandez, facilitated a math games session during the College Park Academy Summer Camp. Victoria worked with approximately 50-60 5th-9th graders 35 minutes each day for two weeks.
During this first few days students were able to choose from a collection of two-player strategy games like Quarto, Yamma, Abalone, and Six-o. By the end of week one larger groups games were introduced like Deduckto, Skyjo, Point Salad and No Thanks. During week two Victoria introduced Kingdomino, Patchwork, Ticket to Ride-New York, and Set. Students were able to choose games that interest them or create they own game as a final project!
UTeach Conference Presentation
May 21st, 2025
Our then FMTC president, Zoe Chabria, presented a Number Hive presentation that Jade had developed at the national Uteach conference in Reno. The session was well attended with over 20 folks who were eager to hear more about the other games we had been using.
Chabria, Z. (2025, May 21). Number Hive: A game-based approach to enhancing mathematical fluency in the K-12 classroom. Session presented at the 2025 UTeach STEM Educators Conference. Reno, NV.
Maryland Mentor Corps Colloabortion
May 9th, 2025
Our FMTC chapter was invited to partner with the Maryland Mentor Corp for their Celebration Day at the University of Maryland. This is a day where they bring local 4th grade students who were tutored throughout the year on campus to celebrate. Several students and faculty facilitated play with three classes of 4th graders for 30 minutes. We played Gobblet Gobblers, Quarto, Family Katomino, Set, Sixxo, calendar puzzles, Uno, Connect Four, and Swish.
Maryland Day 2025
April 26th, 2025
Each year our university hosts a Maryland Day celebration where over 50,000 local community members are invited to see a showcase of all aspects of our university. This year we decided to open our classroom spaces for families who wanted to play games. We had 7 FMTC student volunteers (Jade, Arthur, Rowan, Evan, Peter, Abby and Timothy). We estimated there were over 50 visitors who stopped by and played 13 different games (Gobblet Gobblers, Quarto, No Thanks, Uno, Katamino Family, Set, Mancala, Seven Wonders, Swish, Hive, Ticket to Ride-New York, Lost Cities and Magnatiles).
Monthly FMTC Game Nights
March 28, 2025
FMTC continues to host monthly game nights on the University of Maryland campus to encourage play and mathematical practice. Game nights are open to the public and can pull in quite a few people. Though most attendees are college students, all of the programs game remain popular and well-loved, including Qwixx, Point Salad, and Six-o among many others.
Early Career Teaching Conference (ECTC)
February 1, 2025
Each year the Associate of Maryland Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMMTE) hosts an Early Career Teaching Conference (ECTC). The goal of this conference is to provide novice teachers (pre-service up to five years) an opportunity to present at a conference of their peers. This conference typically draws around 50 participants. Our student affiliate, FMTC, hosted the conference at the University of Maryland this year and had over 50 people register for the conference with 11 current FMTC members attending and several FMTC alumni. At this conference we had 4 FMTC students present on ideas from the Game On project. Two students hosted a session about Number Hive, while two more students used the game of Set. In total these sessions drew about 20 novice teacher attendees.
Miles, J. & Chabria, Z. (2025, Feb, 1). What’s all the Buzz around Number Hive? Session presented at the 2025 Early Career Teaching Conference. College Park, MD.
Chabria, Z. & O’Brien A. (2025, Feb, 1). Ready, SET, Math: Building Mathematical Reasoning with Games. Session presented at the 2025 Early Career Teaching Conference. College Park, MD.
Northeast Noyce Networking Conference
November 8th, 2024
The FMTC faculty advisor, Dana Grosser-Clarkson, and two Noyce Scholars/FMTC members, Cassidy Kennington & Laura Krell, were invited to attend the Northeast Noyce Networking conference in Boston in Fall 2024. We hosted a table at the STEM share-a-thon event and provided information about the Game On project and allowed participants to play. Several in-service teachers stopped by our table and engaged with various games. The project was well received with several attendees staying over 20 minutes to engage with the games.
Grosser-Clarkson, D., Krell, L., Kennington, C., (2024, Nov. 8). Game On Project: Learning Mathematics via games. Project presented at the STEM Share-a-thon at the 2024 Northeast Noyce Regional Conference. Boston, MA, US.
Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference
October 18, 2024
FMTC members who had been working with the Game On project presented sessions on how games can be used in the classroom at the Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) Annual Conference. One former and one current FMTC student (Stephanie Greer & Jade Miles) introduced Number Hive, two current FMTC members (Jade Miles & Abby O’brien) presented on Deduckto and our faculty advisor and one student (Dana Grosser-Clarkson & Zoe Chabria) presented on Qwixx. The three presentations were very well attended with each session having anywhere from 15-25 teachers in the audience. At least 1 teacher reached out to us afterward about implementing some of the games in their local classroom.
Miles, J. & O’Brien A. (2024, Oct. 18). Quacking the Case: Mathematical Learning with Deduckto. Session presented at the 2024 Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference. Columbia, MD.
Greer, S. & Miles, J. (2024, Oct. 18). Game On: What’s all the Buzz around Number Hive? Session presented at the 2024 Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference. Columbia, MD.
Grosser-Clarkson, D. & Chabria, Z. (2024, Oct. 18). Game On: Rolling Towards Mathematical Reasoning with Qwixx. Session presented at the 2024 Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference. Columbia, MD.
FMTC Game On Workshop
October 9th, 2024
We invited students, faculty, and local teachers to a free workshop that the FMTC hosted at the University of Maryland. Three current FMTC students (Jade Miles, Zoe Chabria & Abby O’Brien), one former FMTC student (Stephanie Greer) and our FMTC faculty advisor (Dana Grosser-Clarkson) introduced participants to three games–Qwixx, Deduckto, and Number Hive– and described how they could be incorporated into their mathematics classroom. The evening was filled with lots of laughter and joy. We had 3 UMD faculty members, 4 UMD students, 3 Prince George’s County Public School teachers, and 1 Montgomery County Public School teacher in the audience. Given the feedback on the post workshop survey (n=5), Number Hive was the crowd favorite, with all 5 responders wanting to play again and take the game into their classrooms, and some did!
Grosser-Clarkson, D., Miles, J., Chabria, Z., Greer, S., O’Brien, A. (2024, October 9). Unlocking Joy. A workshop on game-based mathematical learning. Session hosted by the Future Mathematics Teachers Council, College Park, MD.