”Ett helt nytt sätt att undervisa i matematik testas nu i ett forskningsprojekt vid Forshällaskolan i Uddevalla. Metoden består av ett grafiskt matematikprogram och digitala whiteboard och har utvecklats av Lena Pareto, filosofie doktor i datalogi vid Högskolan Väst.”
Tidningsartikel Västpunkt, 2/2008 » Läs mer

”Forskning och pedagogik går hand i hand när Wallenbergsstiftelsen storsatsar på matematik och IT i Uddevalla. Genom ett anslag på 1,2 miljoner kronor sätter IT-hungriga lärare Forshällaskolan på kartan.”
Tidningsartikel Bohusläningen, Del 2, fredag 26 september 2008 » Läs mer

Matematikspelet Rutiga Familjen och aktuella studieresultat  presenteras under ett seminarie  på Matematikdagen:

Spela spel och lär en agent – och förstå aritmetik

Lena Pareto deltar i APLEC konferensen International Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization in E-B/Learning using Pedagogic Conversational Agents, in Hawaii, USA, och presenterar följande artikel: A Teachable Agent Game for Elementary School Mathematics promoting Causal Reasoning and Choice.

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