Virtual Environment to Aid in the Teaching of Multiplication Tables to Elementary and Middle School Students with ADHD

Abstract:

Learning the multiplication tables is extremely important to the elementary and middle school students, it is one of the pillars to understand mathematics, but sometimes learning this content becomes something mechanical and exhausting, making it difficult for the students to understand, especially those with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Therefore a virtual environment was developed to teach the multiplication tables to the elementary and middle school students with ADHD. All good programming practices were followed. The validation was performed by educators and computer specialists with excellent results. For the next stage of the research a validation with the students will be performed.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 610)
• Pages: 638-641
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.610.638
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Wagner Marcelo Sanchez, Luiz Teruo Kawamoto*, Silvia Cristina Martini Rodrigues, Alessandro Pereira da Silva
• Keywords: ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Virtual Learning Environment

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