Smart abacus educational apps embedded with abacus hardware as primary students educational kit

Abdullah, Nur Hidayatul Farahi (2021) Smart abacus educational apps embedded with abacus hardware as primary students educational kit. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Abacus is a traditional mathematical tool for calculation that are already exist for a long time, which is widely used in China, Japan and Russia. With the development of technology, the educational of abacus has been improved from time to time. From traditional methods to the utilization of PC application like courseware and website, and also in mobile application such as smartphones and tablets. The abacus calculation tool is a must learn for all first level of elementary school students in Malaysia. Nonetheless, abacus learning is very boring, because it includes repetitive exercises and endless exercises. In addition, Malaysia’s abacus education still uses traditional methods, which needed students to remember calculation methods. Using Arduino Mega to develop smart abacus is to combine the functionality of abacus with electronic equipment to provide better visualization of abacus operation. The main focus of this technology is to help elementary school students verify basic arithmetic operations. In order to save time for learning abacus, smart abacus was introduced. The main goal of the project is to make smart abacus easy to learn and use. The concept of the planned device is to combine the traditional abacus with the mobile application. The smart abacus can perform task by displaying values consistent with the beads on LCD display. The hardware utilized in the development of smart abacus is 4+1 bead type Japanese abacus (Soroban), Arduino Mega microcontroller and 4-way infrared (IR) sensor. The open source Arduino software (IDE)is employed to program the microprocessor in C language. From observation, it is obvious that the smart abacus can operate with success to perform mathematical operations.

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