A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Comparing Numbers, here is a piece of the bigger picture. The Oregon Trail began in 1971 when three student teachers created a computer simulation to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American history. It also connects to a different milestone: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Comparing Numbers is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer learning games timeline.
