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An Investigation Into Mobile Learning for High School Mathematics

An Investigation Into Mobile Learning for High School Mathematics
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Author(s): Vani Kalloo (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)and Permanand Mohan (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Innovations in Mobile Educational Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): David Parsons (The Mind Lab by Unitec, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2139-8.ch019

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Abstract

This paper describes an investigation which was carried out to determine if mobile learning can be used to help high school students improve their performance in mathematics. The investigation was driven by the need to develop innovative learning solutions to eradicate the problem of low pass rates in mathematics in the Caribbean. A mobile learning application called MobileMath was developed targeting a subset of the mathematics curriculum. MobileMath offers the learner different learning strategies, game-based learning, and personalization. Two of the evaluation studies conducted are described in this paper. The first study focused on students using mobile learning on their own, while the second study explored the effects of teacher support while using mobile learning. A t-test analysis shows that there was a significant improvement in performance by students in both evaluation studies. The paper also compares the students’ performance with actual usage of the mobile learning application.

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