Design and Development of an Educational Game for Facilitating Spatial Ability and Mathematics Learning

Abstract

Spatial ability has been shown to have a strong connection with mathematics learning. Geometry is considered difficult by students due to being weak in spatial ability. This study designed and developed an educational game for spatial ability training and math learning to solve the problems in math classes. Moreover, we examined the effectiveness of the educational game in the context of real math classes by designing an empirical experiment involving two groups of primary school students in grade five (N=64). The results from the experiment showed that the proposed educational game was more effective to enhance math learning compared to original math classes using general media.