Till EDMEDIA-konferensen World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications in Lugano, Schweiz, presenterade Lena Pareto följande artikel 2004: The Squares Family: A Game and Story based Microworld for Understanding Arithmetic Concepts designed to attract girls (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: To address the matter of children’s lacking understanding of arithmetic concepts, we have designed an educational environment, a microworld, which we believe stimulate self-regulation and reflective cognition. The microworld is based on an analogical, constructive representation, where mathematical objects and operations are translated into graphical objects and animations. The microworld contains a story, and combined card- and board games. The story is about the Squares Family. It has three purposes: to explain the graphical model; to introduce the games; and to give an understanding of the concepts involved. The purpose of the games is to allow children to use the graphical model and to practice important aspects of arithmetic. The games focus on concepts, not computations, and encourage own discoveries. The combination of a story-based microworld with games shows potential for providing an effective learning environment. The microworld is developed with user-centred design, and there is a prototype in Java. » Läs mer

I den vetenskapliga tidskriften Educational Technology Research and Development publiceras följande artikel 2012: A teachable-agent-based game affording collaboration and competition: evaluating math comprehension and motivation (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska).
Abstrakt: This paper presents an educational game in mathematics based on an apprenticeship model using a teachable agent, as well as an evaluative study of how the game affects (1) conceptual understanding and (2) attitudes towards mathematics. In addition, we discuss how collaborative and competitive affordances of the game may affect understanding and motivation. 19 students played the game in pairs once a week during math lessons for 7 weeks (the game-playing group) while another 19 students followed the regular curriculum (the control group). Math comprehension scores increased significantly for the game-playing group but not the control group (p < 0.05). However, there was no significant difference in attitude change between the two groups. Post hoc analyses indicated that game-playing primarily affected students’ confidence in explaining math to a peer, but not their enjoyment of doing so. Collaborative and competitive activities seem to carry a strong motivational influence for students to play the game. » Läs mer

Till AIED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Brighton, Storbritannien, presenterade Lena Pareto med kollegorna Daniel L. Schwartz från Stanford University, USA och Lars Svensson från Högskolan Väst, följande artikel 2009: Learning by guiding a teachable agent to play an educational game (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: Teachable agents are used to support transfer of game playing knowledge to domain knowledge for an educational, arithmetic game. A pre-posttest experiment study show promising learning effects for low ability students. » Läs mer

Idag sker det sista presentationsmötet inom FAS I i Skolverkets ”Matematiksatsning 2011”. Under detta möte introduceras Sandersdalsskolan och Unnerödsskolan till Skolverkets matematiksatsning i Uddevalla.

Under mötet sker följande:
Lena Pareto presenterar detta 2 årsprojekt samt matematikspelet Rutiga Familjen. Kjell Svanström, projektets koordinator och lärare på Dalabergsskolan, kunnig inom Rutiga Familjen-konceptet genom Wallenbergsatsningen, presenterar sig och sin funktion inom projektet.

Artikeln ”Mathematical Literacy for Everyone using Arithmetic games” har publicerats i en internationell tidskrift om barns hälsa och utveckling: International Journal on Child Health and Human Development av Nova publisher

Pareto, L. (2014). Mathematical Literacy for Everyone using Arithmetic Games. In International Journal on Child Health and Human Development; Volume 7(4). Special issue: Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments for People with Special Needs. Editors: Orly Lahav, Paul Sharkey and Joav Merrick.

”Wallenbergsstiftelsen storsatsar på att utveckla matteundervisningen i Uddevalla med hjälp av IT. I ett särskilt projekt ska eleverna utveckla sitt matematiska tänkande genom ett dataprogram där de lär upp datorn. Tanken är att det ska vara kul att räkna och att eleverna ska se att matematiken är en viktig del av vardagen.”
Sveriges Television, Västnytt, onsdag 24 september 2008 » Läs mer