Gamificación en prototipo de aplicación móvil para fortalecer la competencia matemática de quinto año de educación básica

Abstract

Due to the Covid-19 health emergency, changes have been made in all areas, one of them, education. Many teachers and students have been involved in a change from face-to-face classes to online classes, which is why the following research work is shown as an option to improve student learning, as well as a different way aimed at the teaching-learning process. The following research project was developed with students in the fifth year of General Basic Education under the supervision of teacher Elena De la Rosa, at the Dr. Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora School in the city of Machala, province of El Oro. As a means of helping to strengthen mathematical competence in the topics of multiplication and division, a mobile application has been developed with exercises for students to perform and practice in this case, in addition to the fact that the exercises are for reasoning and can improve their ability to solve these types of exercises. According to the analysis of the results, the application had a great reception and good results. This suggests that the help of technology in education is important for students to complement their learning process. Given this, the importance of including the different applications, educational technology and tools to the process of teaching and learning of students and improvement of the class of teachers of different educational levels is determined.