Azure-Kinect and Augmented Reality for learning Mathematics - A children case study

Authors

  • Raúl Lozada-Yánez 1, 2, Nora La-Serna Palomino , Diego Veloz-Chérrez , Fernando Molina-Granja ,Juan Carlos Santillán-Lima

Abstract

Abstract Human learning processes have always been a field of great interest for researchers and teachers, an issue that presents most interest in certain learning areas in which the contents that must be acquired by the student, by its nature, are perceived with more complexity than others. Since children physical and cognitive abilities do not complete its development until a certain age, this issue is especially important in the young children´s learning environments as they, for the aforementioned characteristics, do not learn easily and correctly some abstract content, such as the mathematical contents. This work presents the application´s results of an informatic system called "Mathematical Learning System with Augmented Reality based on Kinect" (SAM-RAK, acronymous in the Spanish language), this application covers some basic mathematic contents corresponding to the third level of Basic General Education (EGB), from Ecuador curricula. The research uses a quantitative experimental design in which 30 children (12 boys and 18 girls), from the third level of EGB, from two Educative Units in Riobamba-Ecuador, tested the SAM-RAK system. To evaluating the developed informatic system, the qualifications obtained by the participant children in a pre-test (with traditional learning) and a post-test (Using SAM-RAK as a support tool for learning process) were compared, using for this the t-student for paired samples test. The obtained statistical evidence indicates that the SAM-RAK computer system produced a positive effect on children's performance when these use the developed system as a support tool for the learning process. The system has more impact on children with low qualifications compared to high achievers’ children. It was also found that the children were motivated and showed positive attitudes when using SAM-RAK System.

Published

2020-12-01

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