Board game based pedagogical experiment in pre-number concepts to be presented at an international conference in Chandigarh

Board-game based pedagogical experiment in pre-number concepts to be presented at an international conference in Chandigarh

 Dr. Lalit Kishore[1] (Earlier Published at merinews.com portal which is closed now)

International Conference on Advances in Mathematics & Engineering Sciences is going to be held April 27-29 in which a theme of educational mathematics has been included for which the paper "Designing and Exploring the Use of a Board Game for Selected Pre-Number Concepts for Pre-School Students as a Part of Educational Mathematics" has been accepted.

The paper authored by Dr Lalit Kishore –  this CJ who is presently working with Disha in Jaipur – will be presented in the conference. "We cordially invite you to International Conference on Advances in Mathematics & Engineering Sciences 2017 where you are one of our important participants along with the 200 & more representing more than 150 professional institutions from abroad and representation from every state in India and almost all the participants are Professional Researchers who are in front-line of the combat," wrote the convener of the conference requesting an oral presentation.

The abstract of the paper is as follows:

One of the banes of mathematics teaching in schools, more so in pre-schools, is to straight away start with the abstract aspects of the subject with providing any prior perceptual learning and concrete experiences. Keeping this in view, a board-game was designed for educational mathematics pedagogical experimentation along with a worksheet for a formalized perceptual learning experience for pre-school students (4-5 years age group) for the pre-number concepts like sequencing, matching, discriminating; one-to-one correspondence and equivalent sets. The research-and-development methodology was used for the present study. For the board-game, a cubical dice was made with a thick paper with a different pattern on its six faces. A square board was made with four patterns selected at random from the six on the dice to be fixed on the four sides of the board.  Four students played the game with the throw of the dice and use of the buttons as counters. A worksheet was designed to be filled with tallies to formalize learning of pre-number concepts. The tallies with the move due to the throw of the dice gave a feel for absence or a presence of a pattern, equivalence of tallies and one-to-one correspondence. The pedagogical experiment in the use of the board-game was performed on four students of a pre-school in the age group of four plus seen by 10 teachers who reacted positively to the use of the board game.

[1] http://www.merinews.com/article/board-game-based-pedagogical-experiment-in-pre-number-concepts-to-be-presented-at-an-international-conference-in-chandigarh/15923827.shtml&cp