Application Development for Student with Dyscalculia

Lam, Jing Sung (2020) Application Development for Student with Dyscalculia. Final Year Project, UTAR.

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Abstract

This project is a mobile application development project for academic purpose. This project is developed specific for student with Dyscalculia. Recent research shown that there is a less focus or study on Dyscalculia in Malaysia. Less focus is therefore creating a situation that there is very less educational mobile application being studied or developed in Malaysia for the children who suffer Dyscalculia. A severe ignorance from the society regarding this matter, has therefore created limited studies, investigation and not much of development on educational game for the children diagnosed with Dyscalculia. With today’s technological advancement the quality of life has improved a lot due to the rapid technology advancement and innovation. This has benefited the people diagnosed with disability in improving their learning environment. Research also state that disabled people can learn better with the support of technology. This helps them to focus on the subject matter eliminate the unnecessary distraction from the surrounding. Method that has been deployed for the development in this project is Calculic Model. This proposed model composed three factors, which they are, Instructional Factor, Environment factor and Personal factor. The development of the application will be guided with this model. The tools used to development would be Construct 3. It is a mobile application tools that uses HTML5, JavaScript as their language. The development requirement will follow according to the proposed model. Based on these three factors, a suitable mobile application will be developed. The application will be composed four subjects, which are addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication and additional quiz. Each of these will contain several levels designed with different difficulties. This project aims to provide a solution to help the primary children with Dyscalculia diagnosed in better learning in mathematics. So, they won’t found learning mathematics is boring and trouble.

Item Type:	Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis (Final Year Project)
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Information and Communication Technology > Bachelor of Information Systems (Honours) Business Information Systems
Depositing User:	ML Main Library
Date Deposited:	30 Dec 2020 19:26
Last Modified:	30 Dec 2020 19:26
URI:	http://eprints.utar.edu.my/id/eprint/3764

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