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From what I know, research does not support the idea that dragonbox is a particularly effective way to teach algebra. Which is too bad, because it seems like it
by dr_dshiv 6y ago
From what I know, research does not support the idea that dragonbox is a particularly effective way to teach algebra. Which is too bad, because it seems like it would work really well:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3057889 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3057889
- VSerge 6y agoI've seen first hand how well it works in a study with 40k kids in the US, Norway, and France. The study was led by the Center for Game Science, Washington University. Paper: Zoran Popović. Achieving 96% Mastery at National Scale through Inspired Learning and Generative Adaptivity. Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale, 2015. http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2724684&ftid=1550376&dwn=1&CFID=494277756&CFTOKEN=83557910 http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2724684&ftid=1550376&dwn... Post-test success as used in the paper you mentioned can be a misleading indicator if transfer to pen and paper was done improperly. As kids solving equations in a game are moving terms around by touch on a screen, they need to transfer that learning to pen and paper before being able to write a line by line solution. Failing to do this transfer would predictably lead to a poor post-test performance, without actually measuring properly how much algebra had been learned and understood.
- hamilyon2 6y agoWell, it is not In my experience. Sample size of 1, though.