Angry Birds is a video-game franchise created by Rovio Entertainment Ltd., based in Espoo, Finland. It has become popular all over the world and is now used by educators in the United States to teach math concepts.
By Ann Doss Helms, The Charlotte Observer
People who worried that the technology boom would lead to children playing video games in class were right.
Around the country, students are playing such games as Minecraft, World of Warcraft, and Angry Birds?and their teachers are encouraging it.
"Video games are not the great evil that people make them out to be," said Trish Cloud, a technology instructor at Torrence Creek Elementary School in Huntersville, N.C., where she created...
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