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During school arithmetic classes, it often happens that some pupils are not confident enough in performing a particular type of operations in the time before the teacher moves to another topic. Therefore, we are looking for help for the case when the pupil needs to practice, but the topic is already felt as boring. For this purpose, we suggest tasks of arithmetic constructions where a pupil constructs the required value from given numbers and operations.
ATest application is designed to give pupils such tasks and to allow pupils to solve them. It works on a browser, so it can be run on computers as well as mobile devices. The application itself evaluates the pupils’ answers and thus provides immediate feedback. The answers are saved to the database, so the teacher can follow the pupils’ progress.
After a short period of free ATest operation, we performed a controlled experiment with a group of 30 pupils aged 11. Then they filled in a questionnaire. The results are promising.
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Gergelitsová, Š., Holan, T. (2019). ATest – An Online Tool to Solve Arithmetic Constructions. In: Scheffel, M., Broisin, J., Pammer-Schindler, V., Ioannou, A., Schneider, J. (eds) Transforming Learning with Meaningful Technologies. EC-TEL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29736-7_79
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