ERIC Number: EJ1378436
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jan
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1176-3647
EISSN: EISSN-1436-4522
Semiotic Alternations with the Yupana Inca Tawa Pukllay in the Gamified Learning of Numbers at a Rural Peruvian School
Guzman-Jimenez, Rosario; Dhavit-Prem; Saldívar, Alvaro; Escotto-Córdova, Alejandro
Educational Technology & Society, v26 n1 p79-94 Jan 2023
Yupana Inca Tawa Pukllay (YITP) is a ludic didactic resource based on semiotic alternation that, using the reading of numbers in the Inca numeral system, improves its equivalent Indo-Arabic reading. Twelve children from first to fourth grade of a bilingual (Spanish-Quechua), multi-grade elementary school in a small rural Peruvian community were assigned an electronic tablet with YITP and learned autonomously, without teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results obtained show that: (a) they learned in a very short period of time (14 min - 05h 41 min) (b) they improved digit reading accuracy on the first attempt (c) they improved digit reading speed d) they achieved a high percentage of correct reading of numbers containing at least one zero digit. The results suggest the potential of YITP as an educational tool in the teaching-learning process of arithmetic.
Descriptors: Semiotics, American Indians, American Indian Students, American Indian Languages, Spanish, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education, Handheld Devices, Multigraded Classes, Rural Schools, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Independent Study, Accuracy, Numbers, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics, Game Based Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Peru
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