| dc.description.abstract | Mental arithmetic is a common mathematical skill in daily life, and also a fundamental knowledge of estimation. One of the methods to be mastery of mental arithmetic is to do lots of practices, but it could cause the results that students easily feel tired and bored.
There are lots of papers describing the significant effect of game-based learning, especially in fostering motivation of students, however, the research of designing of game-based learning in formal courses of elementary school are few. This study designed a game-based learning course which included five games and content that designed by the researcher for practicing mental arithmetic for a semester of elementary school. A stable course of individual mini game learning for practicing mental arithmetic in one-to-one classrooms was designed in the last unit of the curriculum. Basic analysis and discussion were also done after the end of the courses for the related researchers in the future.
In the observation of the students’ behavior and the results of correct rates and response times in their answering records, we find out that they have significant progress. In the last unit of the curriculum, all the processes are done on the computers, and Tutorial mechanism was added into the system letting all students really reach self-paced learning. After the end of the curriculum, questionnaires and interviews were done by students and teachers, both of them were satisfied with the system and the learning activity.
Keyword: mental arithmetic, self-paced learning, 1:1 classroom, game-based learning | en_US |