Philippine E-Journals

ENHANCING MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, ADDITION AND SUBSTRACTION CALCULATION SKILLS THROUGH COMPUTER GAMING

Helm Ehmy Ilarde | Louie Allen Lacsamana | Rijean Marie Lardizabal | Romeo Pocholo Requillo | Marie Joan Beanny Sy | Exander T. Barrios

 

Abstract:

Mathematics is a challenging subject. With how education is now linked with entertainment and Philippines having just recently updated from K10 to K12 standard of education, Filipino educators are faced with the challenge of teaching the new generation of students while learning is the challenge for the latter. With these in mind, the researchers aim to utilize the use of video games to enhance the users’ calculation skills and incorporate it to assist the students’ education in the basic arithmetic and the MDAS operations. In order to gauge the effects of the MDAS video game, 40 out of 169 grade four students of the University of the Immaculate Conception, Grade School Department in the academic year 2013-2014 were chosen to become the respondents of this study and were divided into the control group and the experimental group. With the help of the respondents’ math teachers as the conductors of the pre-test, system testing and posttest activities, the researchers were able to come up with an analysis that proved the importance of math educators. Without a good benchmark of the basic arithmetic, advanced concepts like the MDAS operation would be difficult to comprehend and that the MDAS game is a useful tool to exercise the user’s basic arithmetic.