FROM CLASSIC MATH SCHOOL BOOKS TO INTERACTIVE GAMIFIED ELEARNING
FROM CLASSIC MATH SCHOOL BOOKS TO INTERACTIVE GAMIFIED ELEARNING

Summary/Abstract: Technology has reached a level most people could not even imagine a couple of decades ago. "eLearning" has become a hot topic all over the world. However, in many countries, including Romania, the educational system has not evolved the same way as technology. In most elementary and middle schools, the educational process does not differ much from the one established ten or even twenty years ago. Many students have access to smartphones, tablets, laptops, but they still use traditional paper textbooks and solve classical problems exercises in school. We propose an improvement to the current education system, which solves some major issues in the actual socio-economic context: a modern eLearning interactive math platform. Our team, composed of renowned math teachers and dedicated researchers in the technical field, has developed an online math platform for 5th grade pupils, characterized by attractiveness, interaction, animation, student-centred learning, gamification and originality. A pilot experiment with students from "Cantemir Vodă" National College of Bucharest, Romania, has proven the quality and benefits of such an interactive manual. This paper presents the challenges encountered by our team throughout the platform development, the pilot experiment, with feedback coming both from students and teachers, as well as some ideas for future exploitation, popularization and integration in the Romanian learning system, in order to achieve large scale performance in education. The last section of the paper highlights the idea that gamified and interactive learning is very intuitive and helpful for students nowadays, and represents the future for a better education system.

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