An Augmented Reality Application for Basic Mathematics: Teaching and Assessing Kids’ Learning Efficiency

Modern education system emphasizes the important role of mathematics making it a subject of significant value. However, most of the students do not have an understanding of the subject even from the basic level as kids are afraid to learn math from childhood itself. The interactive technology known as augmented reality has the potential to create an effective solution to overcome the fear in kids by making kids friendly applications. Although a lot of efforts have been put by researchers to develop applications to circumvent the aforementioned issues, the problem still remains. The major problem while making such applications is the productivity or the efficiency of those applications in achieving the task at hand. This work reports the augmented reality application named Mathify to mitigate the problems faced by kids in learning the very base of math i.e. counting along with an assessment phase to check the learning efficiency of the child. The game has successfully been deployed and assessed on kids in the age group of 3-5 years. The results show that Mathify is a well-designed learning application with equal elements of entertainment and education. For future work, there will be a number of interactive phases to teach and access a variety of mathematical concepts.