Abstract
Arithmetic is an important skill to learn at an early age. However, teaching arithmetic to pre-school children can be challenging as children around that age have short attention span and prefer to engage in interactive activities. Thus, the purpose of this study is to incorporate multimedia elements into mathematical learning to make it more interactive and exciting to the children. The contents have been specifically designed to visualize the introduction of numbers and to encourage children’s interaction by drawing their attention to the courseware. The result revealed that the students have shown significant improvement over the mental arithmetic approach after being subjected to a typical classroom test. This concludes that the mental arithmetic using interactive multimedia could enhance learning experience for pre-school children.
Highlights
Learning mathematics is crucial and vital because it develops cognitive thinking in young children and it is a challenging task for parents and teachers to educate them
Special attention is given towards children’s behavior and reaction during mental arithmetic lessons in order to have better understanding on reasons that motivates the children during the learning process
In order to test the children’s understanding level, we provide some quizzes to test them
Summary
Learning mathematics is crucial and vital because it develops cognitive thinking in young children and it is a challenging task for parents and teachers to educate them. Teachers need to implement a different learning approach which includes elements of sound, text, graphic and animation in order to provide a better learning approach These elements have been proven to be more interactive, multimedia learning will improve students’ performance and enhance the teaching and learning process as stated by Nott, Nott, and Lee, (2000) and Paschke and Paschke, (2005). Most of the children use exercise books as their source of information If this method is being used as a single approach in classrooms it will be difficult to build their understanding and imagination towards mathematical subject matter. The objects representing the number is provided with animation and spelling This technique teaches children to counting quickly and accurately (Cheah, 2006)
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