Abstract
This paper proposes a web-based application designed to help elementary school students who have difficulty learning online independently and also their parents who are currently having difficulty teaching their children to study at home online, especially at this time of difficulty with a pandemic outbreak like COVID-19; this time does not allow for physical meetings for the learning process in primary schools. In this paper, we only focus on mathematics because based on several other studies, it is very difficult and important to learn mathematics at the beginning of educational activities such as at the elementary school level. In this paper, the system is modeled using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) tool in the form of a use case diagram which is used to describe the proposed business process and uses class diagrams to describe the database model diagram. In this case, the class diagram is used to describe the data in the class diagram where each class refers to a table in the database. The web-based application user interface is shown at the end to show the communication between users and applications, where this web-based application is implemented using Personal Home Pages (PHP) as server programming and using MySQL to store database model designs. Moreover, for the Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), content was created using the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) which is an authoring tool for learning mathematics created by Carnegie Mellon University. In the end, this web-based application is expected to be used and support teachers as a complement to online mathematics learning, especially during difficult times such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
A virus outbreak called COVID-19 occurred in Indonesia in March 2020. is affected many sectors in Indonesia, and one of the clearest impacts is on Indonesia’s education. e government decided to minimize educational activities across the country by changing the learning method into an online learning system or daring with the hope to prevent or diminish the spread of COVID-19 [1]. e research found that this will highly affect education institutions that are not ready to embrace the new learning system
We will elaborate the papers that we have collected for our reference to complete this paper; as we know, our title is about an intelligent tutoring system for mathematics; some of the students said that it is easier to learn mathematics after trying the intelligent tutoring system because of the efficiency in material and in nowadays’ terms of teaching [10], many students find that mathematics is hard to learn but all of that depend on the Working Memory (WM) from the students themselves; in this context, students’ working memory was identified as the important thing in learning performance, so solving the problem in mathematics too is an essential part of the student working memory [11]
Some of the effects are the cost of implementation by researchers, users become socially isolated, lack of communication skills by users, the exposure of users to harmful contents, and many more [19]. is is supported by other research which stated that developing an intelligent tutoring system is not an easy task and can only be possible with lots of authoring guidelines, feedbacks, and a good team of researchers and developers surrounding the creation of an intelligent tutoring system and serves as its main resource [20]
Summary
A virus outbreak called COVID-19 occurred in Indonesia in March 2020. is affected many sectors in Indonesia, and one of the clearest impacts is on Indonesia’s education. e government decided to minimize educational activities across the country by changing the learning method into an online learning system or daring with the hope to prevent or diminish the spread of COVID-19 [1]. e research found that this will highly affect education institutions that are not ready to embrace the new learning system. About the mathematic story case or word problem case, research was conducted and compared a high school student who was more native in English in terms of reading or writing with a primary student who was still in the learning stage of English. An alternative method of teaching should be taken into consideration as it will help in boosting students’ participation and learning progress, which becomes one of the main difficulties faced by Indonesian teachers while teaching online [7]. E research was conducted to measure the effectiveness of using an intelligent tutoring system and was concluded with an astonishing result that shows students who received this method of learning can outperform the other students [8]. Teachers have shown signs of interest in the usage of the intelligent tutoring system because does it help in keeping students motivated and helps in increasing students’ problemsolving skills. Step-by-step problem solving made by the intelligent tutoring system can be monitored by both teachers and students [9]
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