Milage App – Mobile Learning of Mathematics

Abstract

This paper presents the novel app MILAGE Learn+ Launcher for smartphones and tablets where students can solve mathematical problems outside the classroom or at home and increase the time they spend learning and practicing mathematics. This app is a tool for learning mathematics that provides a set of problems organized according to the curriculum. It was designed for upper secondary schools but it can be used for other levels and subjects too. This tool is innovative in the introduction of self and peer evaluation for students of secondary schools in a gamification process of solving problems. With this app students solve mathematical problems and they have immediate feedback that is used for self-evaluation. After solving the problem and doing the self-evaluation the student can choose to watch a concise or detailed video to study the problem resolution. The concise video shows the steps need to solve the problem. The detailed video shows in more detail, including background information that may help low achiever students understand the resolution of that problem. In this way, the student can watch the video as many times as those needed to learn how to solve that problem. This is a step for the inclusion of low achiever students in the process of learning mathematics. This app also provides three levels of problems: beginners, intermediate and advanced to accommodate the low achievers and also motivate top performers students to use the app. The student can also at anytime evaluate his peers. In this way, the student can also study again problems of a certain topic when he is evaluating the resolution of a problem solved by another student. In this way, the teacher can also check the self and peer evaluation of his students and has feedback about students' achievements.

MILAGE LEARN+: A Mobile Learning App to Aid the Students in the Study of Organic Chemistry

“…Using this approach, low-achieving students who struggle to learn the material in the classroom may repeatedly watch the video and the correct solution of the exercise and take as much time as they may need to understand the subject …”

“…Using this approach, low-achieving students who struggle to learn the material in the classroom may repeatedly watch the video and the correct solution of the exercise and take as much time as they may need to understand the subject. 15 Top-performing students can have access to more complex exercises, which receives additional motivation. In this way, the platform accommodates students with different levels of learning skills and achievement.…”

“…Presently, we report our experience in the usage of MILAGE LEARN+, − a mobile application for teaching organic chemistry. This app was used to supplement classroom teaching in the organic chemistry course for the undergraduate students studying Marine Biology at the University of the Algarve.…”

Mobile Learning e Metodologias Ativas no Ensino de Números Complexos na Educação Profissional e Tecnológica

“…Abordaram-se as contextualizações dos conceitos e das definições, das representações de um número complexo. A demonstração da forma algébrica dos números complexos pode ser realizada por meio do app Números Complexos e do app Symbolab que apresentam calculadora para as operações com Números Complexos (FIGUEIREDO et al, 2016;PINHEIRO;SERUFFO;PIRES, 2019). No momento assíncrono da aula, na atividade proposta no Google Forms, em um formulário on-line, abordam-se as operações com Números Complexos e o seu conjugado.…”

Editing ePub3 for Blended Learning in Mathematics

“…In this paper, we offer solutions to these problems. These solutions are the result of the reflection and work of the professors of the IES Norba Caesarina, who participate in the Interactive Mathematics project by implementing a Blended-Learning model with Augmented Reality and Game books (MILAGE) [3] and therefore are involved, with significant modifications, in the editing process [2] of e-books in EPUB 3 format.…”