When making your board game you will want to study many sources and games for the mechanics and designs you like best.

Googling, "design your own board game" yields various how-to articles that say a lot about the physical craft of printing and cutting out the pieces and such, but nothing about mechanics.

On this week's Spotlight on Education, Roxanne Strouk visits Thoreau Middle School, where student Kasra Karimi is making waves with his patented board game.

The old-fashioned method of solving problems from a textbook was not getting the job done at Hanover-Horton Elementary School. So the school took a new approach to math education Wednesday — games.

Educators who have hosted successful community math nights say there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Here are a few strategies you can steal—er, borrow and carry—to make your event a ...