Learning Geometry by Using Virtual Reality

摘要

With the rapid change in the society, education must evolve to adapt to the digital native students of the 21st century. A change in the current educational paradigm is thus necessary. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a vehicle to achieve this objective of paradigm shift in education [2]. In this paper, we propose gamification approach [3] via a virtual reality (VR) through a report of a didactic experience. A mixed method research design was adopted for this study in which students’ classification of polyhedral will be reported for the two different learning experiences using either wooden polyhedral or a VR tool within an immersive learning environment. The VR environment allows the learning of geometry in three-dimensional with a friendly interface that offers a multitude of options. It is worth highlighting the benefits of this VR tool in the teaching-learning process of geometry, making explicit the fundamental role played by ICT in meaningful learning of mathematics.