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Dyscalculia is a specific neurological affliction that disrupts a person’s ability to understand and manipulate numbers. We intend to develop a serious game for children who attend primary school (up to 4th grade) and whose purpose is making the learning of basic mathematics (simple arithmetic) easier, by introducing specific mathematical problems and educational games that stimulate memory, among other aspects. To that end, we undertook a straightforward and preliminary evaluation of the serious game developed and present its results. Indeed, we believe that the findings of our pilot case study can be useful to determine some perceptions that may be vital to understanding the problems with teaching mathematics and the issues students face in this regard.
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We thank all people who directly or indirectly helped in this study, namely Santa Comba de Rossas primary school, Ana Dias, Ana Vale, Diana Alves, Diana Ferreira, José Ribeiro, Márcia Pires and Rui Vaz.
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Carvalho, D., Rocha, T., Martins, P., Barroso, J. (2021). Developing an Application for Teaching Mathematics to Children with Dyscalculia: A Pilot Case Study. In: Huang, YM., Lai, CF., Rocha, T. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_39
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