Gamification in teaching - learning of mathematics in elementary basic education

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to provide an effective and fun experience for the development of mathematical abilities, skills and competencies in a learning environment based on technology and game dynamics, this implies that elementary school students learn by playing while doing an academic task, supporting a system of activities that includes Gamification as a didactic strategy to improve the teaching-learning process of mathematics, through innovation, fun, productivity, managing to overcome disinterest and low academic performance . Gamification will allow students to acquire friendly, challenging and motivating knowledge that produces positive results, through a specific challenge following the rules of the game to achieve a reward system in a motivating competition between peers, overcoming levels of difficulty that will allow them to acquire new knowledge and mathematical skills, which contribute to emotional well-being and the development of logical thinking, intuition and abstraction. The purpose of the activities system is to help students arouse interest in learning mathematics and teachers as an inter-learning methodology to enhance creativity and the development of skills of their students.