Empowering the Teaching and Learning of Geometry in Basic Education by Combining Extended Reality and Machine Learning

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel conceptual model combining Extended Reality and Machine Learning to enhance geometry teaching in basic education, aiming to improve student engagement and provide valuable insights for educators.

Contribution

It introduces a new integrated model that leverages XR and ML for geometry education, validated through prototyping as an innovative teaching-learning approach.

Findings

Prototype demonstrates potential to improve geometry learning

Provides useful insights for teachers and students

Innovates traditional geometry teaching methods

Abstract

Technology has helped to innovate in the teaching-learning process. Today's students are more demanding actors when it comes to the environment, they have at their disposal to learn, experiment and develop critical thinking. The area of mathematics has successively suffered from students' learning difficulties, whether due to lack of motivation, low abstraction ability, or lack of new tools for teachers to bring innovation into the classroom and outside it. While it is true that digitalization has entered schools, it often follows a process of digital replication of approaches and materials that were previously only available on physical media. This work focuses on the use of Extended Realities for teaching mathematics, and very particularly in the teaching of geometry, with a proposition of a conceptual model that combines the use of Extended Reality and Machine Learning. The proposed model was subject to prototyping, which is presented as a form of laboratory validation as a contribution to innovate the way in which the geometry teaching-learning process is developed, as well as through the ability to obtain useful insights for teachers and students throughout the process.