Game-Based Learning. Proposal of phases for its implementation for Mathematics in Early Childhood Education.

Abstract

Mathematics is constantly present in a child’s life and the teaching of mathematics must facilitate its understanding and comprehension. That is why the teaching of mathematics is not incompatible with the implementation of the Game-Based Learning methodology. Playing is an essential activity, not only within the teaching-learning process in Early Childhood Education (ECE), but also within the child’s life outside the classroom, so that the use of this active methodology will allow to work the mathematics contents from a more playful, stimulative and manipulative perspective, thus attracting the attention and interest of the students. Therefore, the following literature review and proposal of phases for the implementation of the methodology aims to defend and demonstrate the possibility of working mathematics through the Game-Based Learning methodology in Early Childhood Education. The definition of game and its importance in Early Childhood Education, its relationship with mathematics and the presentation of the Game-Based Learning methodology along with the phases needed to implement it in a classroom are explained.