The Impact of Using Educational Games on Developing some of the Arithmetic Concepts among Students with Hearing Disabilities.

Abstract

The study aims at discovering the effect of the technique that involves using

educational games compared to the traditional technique of teaching in

helping the students who have hearing disabilities understand the arithmetic

concepts of addition and subtraction both in direct and indirect ways.

The study tried to verify the following hypotheses:

♦♦ There is no statistical significance at the level (a=0.05) between the

grades of the two groups: the control & the experimental group in the

addition test.

♦♦ There is no statistical significance at the level (a=0.05) between the

grades of the two groups: the control & the experimental group in the

subtraction test.

♦♦ There is no statistical significance at the level (a=0.05) between the

means for the grades of the two groups: the control & the experimental

group in the pre and post practice for the addition and subtraction test.

♦♦ The study tools included preparing addition and subtraction lessons

according to the technique of using educational games and samples of

these games and the addition and subtraction tests.

♦♦ The study reached the following findings:

♦♦ The differences between the two groups (the control and the experimental)

in the addition test were in favor of the experimental group but the

difference did not reach a statistically significant difference.

♦♦ In the subtraction test, the differences between the two groups had

statistical significance at the level (a=0.01) in favor of the experimental

group.

♦♦ There were substantial differences between the means of the grades for

each of the two groups in the pre and post application for the addition

and subtraction tests in favor of the of post application for both groups

but in different levels