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Basically Green's Cube is a word game but with physics equations designed to emphasize the multiple forms an equation can take. Look at Newton's second law, which is often taught as F=ma but not necessarily. Students on a different part of the planet might know it as F=m dv/dt and Newton himself defined it as the change in momentum, or F=dp/dt (look at the main image for other examples). Green's Cube embraces these differences/similarities by encouraging players to find different forms. Players construct equations from a randomly chosen tool-set and are rewarded for finding different or more elegant forms of equations and penalized for re-using equations played by others.

But beware! This isn't [insert name of your favorite word game here], and there is no dictionary. If challenged a player must be prepared to defend his play with derivations, verifications, logical reasoning, or just all-out mathematical proof. The competitive arena allows players to peak inside the heads of their peers and pick their brains in a way that typically isn't appropriate in a classroom setting.

Hopefully players will gain new perspectives and insight in the relationships of equations and break down affinities that can limit one's thinking, ultimately producing a generation of more robust and confident scientists. Here's what I mean: Because of the way I designed the game, to me "s" meant arc length so whenever I played it I used it in the context of rotational dynamics or something similar, but a friend immediately thought "entropy" and thus used some limit cubes and other pieces to define the 2nd law of thermodynamics. This was the first time I got truly excited because he wasn't supposed to be able to make thermo. equations but he did.