Serious Educational Reinforcement Game in Preschool

TL;DR

This paper presents a digital serious game designed to reinforce preschool mathematical knowledge, providing teachers with tracking reports to enhance educational strategies and improve student engagement.

Contribution

It introduces a novel digital serious game tailored for preschool math education aligned with Venezuelan curriculum, including a student tracking and reporting system.

Findings

Children showed increased engagement with the game.

Teachers received useful reports for adjusting teaching strategies.

The solution demonstrated acceptable computational performance.

Abstract

In Education, is constant the searching of techniques to strengthen and extend the educational strategies in order to achieve that students get knowledge received in classroom, training personal courses and workshops. Serious games are part of that set of educational strategies to reinforce or extend the knowledge using a set of rules and policies in an interactive and amuse way. Nowadays, using technology, it is possible to add images and sounds into serious games under a digital platform. In this paper, we present a solution based on serious games to reinforce the mathematical knowledge in the preschool education following the study plan of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Thus, we offer a tool with expectation of improving skills and knowledge of children on a specific area, also allowing follow the student track getting information of the activities performed. This compilation is made performing reports which will be available for teachers and facilitators. Reports allow adjust orientation and organization of topics imparted in classroom, and to know the general overview of a preschool educational course. Test performed determine the computational performance of solution, also the impact on children and teachers. The wide attention of children was verified, accomplishing the educational tasks in an indirect way.