Influence of Educational Software "Kindermat" in Learning of Geometric Shapes in Five-year-old Children

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 forced a mandatory confinement throughout the planet, thus, teachers and students distanced themselves and caused the migration from face-to-face to virtual education. This drastic change in education greatly affected Peru, as technological tools were required to supp...

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Published in2021 XVI Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO) pp. 450 - 453
Main Authors De Luz Palomino Valdivia, Flor, Rodas, Alfredo Zunniga, Baca, Herwin Alayn Huillcen, Ibarra, Manuel J., Cruz, Mario Aquino, Solis, Ivan Soria
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2021
Subjects
COVID-19
e-learning
Education
Educational Software
Geometric Shapes
Kindermat
Pandemics
Perú
Planets
Shape
Software
Virtual Education
Web Application
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Summary:The pandemic caused by COVID-19 forced a mandatory confinement throughout the planet, thus, teachers and students distanced themselves and caused the migration from face-to-face to virtual education. This drastic change in education greatly affected Peru, as technological tools were required to support the student in the learning process. For this reason, the educational software KINDERMAT was built, which is a web application that supports the learning of geometric shapes in preschool children. The research aims to determine how KINDERMAT influences the conceptual and practical learning of geometric shapes in children 5 years old. To achieve this, students from an Educational Institution in Peru are taken as a sample, dividing them into two groups: experimental group (GE1) and control group (GE2). A post-test is applied to both groups following a quasi-experimental design. Finally, it was shown that the KINDERMAT educational software positively influences learning in the students in the sample, since there is a 15.5% improvement in the learning of children who used the KINDERMAT educational software compared to children who did not use it.
DOI:10.1109/LACLO54177.2021.00058