Principles underlying the design of "The Number Race", an adaptive computer game for remediation of dyscalculia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adaptive game software has been successful in remediation of dyslexia. Here we describe the cognitive and algorithmic principles underlying the development of similar software for dyscalculia. Our software is based on current understanding of the cerebral representation of number and the hypotheses that dyscalculia is due to a "core deficit" in number sense or in the link between number sense and symbolic number representations.

Methods

"The Number Race" software trains children on an entertaining numerical comparison task, by presenting problems adapted to the performance level of the individual child. We report full mathematical specifications of the algorithm used, which relies on an internal model of the child's knowledge in a multidimensional "learning space"

SUBMITTER: Wilson AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1550244 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature