MathFun: Examining the Effectiveness of Calculic Model in Designing App for Dyscalculia Children

Abstract

Learning disability can vary from dyslexia (reading), dyscalculia (math) and dysgraphia (writing) where it focuses on certain learning disability that is being faced by the children. Dyscalculia is one of the common learning disabilities where in this category children are lack in ability of studying the math. However, with the enhancement of technologies, variety of application can be created in aiding the children learning process such as mobile learning by using mobile app. This paper focuses on examining the design model (Calculic Model) in designing a mobile app for Dyscalculia children. MathFun is a mobile app created by the mobile app developer while following the Calculic Model approach for Malaysia Dyscalculia children. The outcomes of this paper view on the effectiveness of the model towards building a mobile application for these children. Usability was performed in order to assess the usability and verifying the effectiveness of MathFun. This study involved 3 teachers and three children. Descriptive analysis was performed from the collected data. Based on the outcome, it’s shows that by using the suggested model there is an increased in the acceptance and usability of the application by the children.

The Use of Learning Aids for Dyscalculia: Systematic Literature Review

“…Dyscalculia is a learning inability directly related to genetics, affecting many things such as difficulty in remembering, understanding and processing numbers (Castaldi et al, 2020;Rohizan et al, 2020) Dyscalculia children have difficulties in various aspects of mathematics such as difficulty understanding the delivery given by teachers, they also have a limit in understanding (May & Ahmad, 2021) difficulties that can be caused by limitations in managing memory. Students who experience Dyscalculia have difficulty understanding various mathematical concepts, if the mathematical concept is not mastered properly it will be fatal in solving various mathematical problems.…”