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MathsCamp - Personalized, adaptive, and social maths learning
The Project
The project started as a collaboration with Anne & Frederikke, two ITU MSc students, and Simona Tudoran, a friend and maths teacher from London. She is really passionate about mathematics and teaching, and had many maths problems that she wanted to be able to share with students in an intelligent way.
The current state of the project is the result of three distinct theses at ITU that built on the strengths of each other:
- Anne & Frederikke, in their MSc thesis, designed, implemented, and evaluated the first version of MathsCamp and wrote about all these in their thesis. The envisioned badges, avatars, and a playful design that was created by interviewing little learners :)
- Tamara, in her BSc project, added personalized progress feedback and studied it’s impact on motivation.
- Mia, in her thesis, added a social component: the students in a classroom can now see how are they ranking in comparison with a few of the neighbourly ranked students. A lot of thinking went into figuring out a way to ensure that the social component is encouraging.
Code
The code is open source and available on GitHub at /MathsCamp/MathsCamp
Application
The following screenshot shows the user profile page of mathscamp.org as of May, 2024.
