Use of an environment for creating multimedia educational activities in primary school. A technological mediation for the development of mental computation

Abstract

The purpose is to establish whether activities developed in an author's language, as didactic mediation, affect the cognitive development that allows students to perform mental calculations. It is a quantitative study of a descriptive correlational type, with a target population of 63 students in basic primary education with an average age between 8 and 11 years. It concludes that there is a positive relationship between the use of activities and the development of mental computation in students.

Keywords

• mental computation
• multimedia environment
• pedagogical mediation
• teaching-learning