Architecture Proposal under a Virtual Reality Ecosystem to Support the Teaching of Basic Mathematics in Elementary Education

ABSTRACT

One of the big problems facing Latin America in education is undoubtedly the educational backwardness that is present and worsens over time, México is no stranger to this problem, in recent years and especially in times of pandemic COVID-19 brought important educational challenges that aggravated the problems. To this is added the difficulty faced by students in learning mathematics, due to the teaching methods used that do not motivate or arouse the interest of students. The objective of this research is to design digital environments focused on virtual reality as a support in the learning of basic mathematics for elementary school students. It is proposed to build a software architecture based on an ecosystem for virtual reality applications, the proposed ecosystem is composed of providers and consumers of educational content (children), elementary school teachers who will generate and design basic mathematics activities and elementary school students will consume the applications through the activities within different virtual environments and with different interaction dynamics making use of virtual reality viewers. It is expected that the architecture can establish the basis for the design and production of Virtual Reality applications that allow the conformation of learning communities in mathematics through the virtual reality learning ecosystem. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).