Desarrollo de una aplicación web y móvil de gamificación educativa para la resolución de problemas matemáticos.

Abstract

In the present curricular integration work, the objective was to develop an educational gamification web and mobile application for solving mathematical problems, which was called ProMate, aimed to academic strengthening in mathematics for fourth grade students of basic education. By applying the methodology of SCRUMBAN agile development, it was possible to determine 13 functional requirements and 3 non-functional requirements. Through documentation reviews, it was determined the benefits and characteristics of gamification as a learning method in mathematics, facilitating the dynamics of students’ motivation to learn through games. Similarly, through a comparative analysis between the learning methodologies that use the multiple educational gamification software products to solve mathematical problems; the methodology based on affective learning in gamification was chosen for the study because it allows testing, analysis of results and fixing bugs in the development stage through application prototypes. The ProMate application is carried out with the SCRUMBAN methodology, where you get 11 technical stories and 15 user stories in a total of 14 sprints. At the end of the development phase it was evaluated the degree of learning obtained by the children fourth grade with the use of the developed educational gamification application (ProMate); achieving satisfactory post-test results in relation to those of the pre-test, this based on the statistical analysis developed with t Student whose value of bilateral significance does not exceed the admitted one, in this way it is confirmed that the ProMate application facilitates in children's academic strengthening. Finally, it is recommended to continue adding modules to the app to include the new topics the students review.