Trilingual Mathematics M-Learning for Kindergarten Students

• Main Author: Khor , Seng Hoong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS 2012
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6282/2/FYP2_FinalDissertation_KhorSengHoong_12614.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/6282/

Mobile-learning (m-learning) has been the current trend in this mobile age and education in technology has been a norm to students. This project aim to investigate the right method of learning mathematics effectively that leads to the development of an appropriate m-learning application for pre-school students of age four to six. Children of age four to six have difficulties learning the basic concepts of mathematics as they are yet to be able to perform mental operations. They have short attention span and some parents are too occupied to accompany their children nowadays. Furthermore, there is limited local material in the market. Hence the main objectives of this project are to develop a trilingual mathematic m-learning application for pre-school students that help boost learning innitiatives at the same time able to improve their memory capability and to perform user testing on the mlearning application developed. The mathematical concepts that are included in this application are count, addition and subtraction. The development approach for this project is the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model as it has rapid prototyping features and could be developed iteratively according to users’ needs and expectation. Eclipse Indigo is the main development platform for this m-learning application. Based on the user testing, this application has gained full recognition from targeted users and all of them learned something from this application.