Using Abacasin Teaching Mathematic (Abacus Mathematic Courseware

• Main Author: Abd Wahid, Nurul Midyahainy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2009
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9249/1/2009%20BAchelor%20-%20Using%20ABACUS%20In%20Teaching%20Mathematic%20%28ABACUS%20Mathematic%20Courseware%29.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/9249/

The purpose of this project is to design and develop a Mathematics courseware in teaching Mathematics. The scope of this courseware is on the special tool which is Abacus. The courseware should represent simple arithmetic operations which are addition and subtraction. Target users for this courseware are children from preschool to standard 2 (6-8 years old) and beginners and learners of Abacus. It is an aid of introduction in learning Mathematics. This project discusses few problems such as people mindset saying that learning process only occur in a classroom, manual learning system - book is bored and children perception on Mathematics, The courseware is been develop using Prototyping-based methodology where it performs 3 phases concurrently which are Analysis, Design and Implementation until the system is completed. The researeh instrument was in the form of a questionnaire to gather data to fulfill the courseware requirements.