The Study to Investigate Second Grade Students’ Attitudes and Game Strategies on a Mathematic Game

• Main Authors: Fu-Mei Lin, 林富美
• Other Authors: Jia-Jiunn Lo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12477427619499928241

碩士 === 中華大學 === 資訊管理學系碩士班 === 100 === ABSTRACT The main purpose of this research is to investigate how the mathematic game Arithmetic Climbing would affect the student’ attitude in math and game attitude in second grader of elementary school. By making use of these tests, the children's thinking and strategies in game are also analyzed. The research is carried out on two classes of second grader and one class of sixth grader at an elementary school in Changhua County. One second-grade class is the experimental group, while the other is the control group A. And a group of sixth-grade students is the control group B. This mathematic game Arithmetic Climbing was developed by the students of the Department of Information Management, Chung Hua University. By using this game as a research tool, the experimental study is to last for a whole semester. Twenty-six second graders of experimental group played the game for forty minutes once a week for four weeks. Thirty-one sixth graders of control group B played the game for forty minutes. But those of the control group A did not play the game at all. The researcher is to analyze the data from children’s math achievement, math attitude, game attitude and strategies development. After statistical analysis, the results are summarized as follows: 1. Students in both the experimental group and the control group A make a little progress in the math achievement, but not significantly. 2. There are significant differences in math attitude of the experimental group in pre-test and post-test. The post-test scores are higher than the pre-test results. However, there are no significant differences in math attitude in both experimental group and control group A. 3. Students in the experimental group think the game is helpful and enjoy in the game. Their attitude in the game system on learning, games, community, system are positive. 4. The experimental group students’ strategies make significant progress in the four games. And the fourth Strategy for the use of development and progress makes no difference compared with control group B. Keywords: math game, game strategy, math attitude