A videogame for supporting teachers' scaffolding in whole-class discussions

Cintia Scafa Urbaez Vilchez (1) , Alice Lemmo (1)

1 UNIVAQ - University of L'Aquila [Italy]

Videogames are becoming a topic of interest in mathematics education. However, research in the field does not seem to clearly highlight the role that a videogame environment has in supporting teachers in promoting teaching-learning processes. The aim of this paper is to analyse how a videogame for learning can support a teacher in scaffolding relational thinking during whole-class discussions. We observed that the videogame does not explicitly seem a benchmark for offering scaffolding interventions, but the teacher states that observing students playing is relevant for orchestrating discussions, especially in anticipating and monitoring students' processes during the classroom activities.

Mots clés: Game based learning; relational thinking; scaffolding

Domaines: Mathématiques [math]

Cintia Scafa Urbaez Vilchez, Alice Lemmo. A videogame for supporting teachers' scaffolding in whole-class discussions. Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Feb 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. ⟨hal-03747796⟩