We propose an automatic math expressions reading system, called KANID. KANID is an educational tool, for blind and visually impaired (VI) students, to facilitate access to math materials. Although blind and VI students can access math documents/materials via many channels, e.g., human reader, math Braille codes, and audio (talking) books, these channels have limited availability. KANID was desi...

Children who have great difficulties learning simple arithmetic problems may have a little-known learning problem known as developmental dyscalculia. Children with dyscalculia have math abilities that are much lower than those of their friends who are of the same age. Also, their difficulties are long lasting, and you cannot explain their problems by poor teaching or by other brain disorders. E...

The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) service provides an integrated Internet-based environment for small teams of people to discuss math and to work collaboratively on math problems or explore interesting mathematical micro-worlds together. We are presenting an overview of VMT’s traditional features and usage in K-12 teaching and group cognition research contexts, and the potential impact on learning o...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Behavioral disorders are highly comorbid with childhood learning disabilities (LDs), and accurate identification of LDs is vital for guiding appropriate interventions. However, it is difficult to conduct comprehensive assessment of academic skills within the context of primary care visits, lending utility to screening of academic skills via informant reports. The curren...

We researched the impact of gendered pedagogical agents on student attitudes for math, motivation and achievement in math, within the context of an adaptive tutoring software for high school mathematics. Learning companions emphasize perseverance by valuing effort in challenging tasks. They are also empathetic, as they reflect students’ emotional states. The results suggest that, across two stu...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the work carried out for the Violent Scenes Detection task at MediaEval 2013 by team TUDCL. Our work is based on the combination of visual, temporal and audio features with machine learning at segment-level. Block-saliency-map based dense trajectory is proposed for visual and temporal features, and MFCC and delta-MFCC is used for audio features. For the ...

The Math Educational Resources (MER) wiki is an open online learning resource hosted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed at providing math education resources for students and instructors at UBC. In this paper, we will discuss the motivation for creating this resource on the MediaWiki platform, key features of our implementation that support student learning (including the evolut...

We studied the effectiveness of a math fact fluency tool integrated with an intelligent tutor as a means to improve student performance in math standardized tests. The study evaluated the impact of Math Facts Retrieval Training (MFRT) on 250 middle school students and analyzed the main effects of the training by itself and also as a supplement to the Wayang Tutoring System on easy and hard item...