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In order for children in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of primary school to improve their literacy, skills and mathematical learning, an interdisciplinary group of students, alumni and research professors from the Institute of Technology and Higher Studies of Monterrey (ITESM), led by the Dr. Juan Carlos Olmedo Estrada, developed the Mati-Tec digital application, described by Professor Olmedo as a pedagogical research project that uses technology. “It is no surprise the area of opportunity that basic education represents for the country, the result of which is essential during the rest of the training period. Additionally, the essential use that new generations give to computers, cell phones, tablets or video games is unavoidable,” said Olmedo Estrada, doctor in humanistic studies with a specialty in science and culture. Taking the above into account, Mexico's performance in reading and mathematics is below the average, estimated at 493 and 490 points, respectively, by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In reading, Mexico is 60 points below and in mathematics, 82, according to the results of the latest survey of the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). This survey, applied at the national level to 62 percent of 15-year-old Mexican students, describes that 57 percent of young people in Mexico do not Iceland Mobile Number List reach the basic level of competencies in mathematics, a result comparable to that obtained by the European countries Albania and Georgia; although better than the performance of Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Peru. In reading, 42 percent of Mexican students are below Level 2 —the level of excellence is weighted at five or six—, a significantly higher percentage than Chile; very similar to that of Colombia, Uruguay and Costa Rica and lower than that of Brazil and Peru. Development The project was carried out based on the official study plans of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), starting with mathematics and fifth grade, mentioned the director of the Department of Communication and Digital Art of the ITESM, Mexico City campus, Juan Carlos Olmedo.
Estrada. “We looked for different approaches and to do so we worked with teachers who are specialists in both traditional teaching and the Montessori system. This is how pedagogical resources were designed to solve problems such as standardized tests, in which it costs children a lot of effort to choose the best answer option due to the very abstract construction of the alternatives that are presented." A group of students and alumni of the Tecnológico de Monterrey developed the platform in which, by solving multiple choice questions, the user advances through topics and levels of complexity. “It is not a video game because this would require more robust technology and the intention is that with quite simple and not so expensive phones, children will take advantage of the application,” explained the director of the Mati-Tec project, Juan Carlos Olmedo Estrada.