Designing A Mobile Game-based Learning Environment to Enhance Students’ Mental Model of Mathematical Ratio Concept

Abstract

The important limitation of understanding mathematics because of its difficulty, complexity, and abstractness of mathematical content. These lead learners lack motivation, unable to create problematic representations, effective mathematical solutions and transform them into mathematical models. As a result, the game integration into learning Mathematics are capable of generating motivation and stimulate mathematical model. Mobile technology is also applied in game-based learning environment and support lifelong learning. This study applied the mental model as the basis for learning environment design on mobile. It employed game based to promote mental model in mathematics. The target group of this study comprised of 24 students. The research method was to 1) synthesis conceptual framework by studying the context of the learners with game-based learning environments, and state learning context. Theoretical analysis prototyping game-based learning environments, 2) quality evaluation of game-based learning environment. The result revealed that game-based learning environment on mobile to enhance mental model on topic ratio was comprised of five components are following: (1) Problem base (2) Intensive system (3) Resources and (4) Scaffolding.