Intelligent Tutoring System: Learning Math for 6th-Grade Primary School Students

Abstract

This paper proposes a web-based application designed to help elementary school students who have difficulty learning online independently and also their parents who are currently having difficulty teaching their children to study at home online, especially at this time of difficulty with a pandemic outbreak like COVID-19; this time does not allow for physical meetings for the learning process in primary schools. In this paper, we only focus on mathematics because based on several other studies, it is very difficult and important to learn mathematics at the beginning of educational activities such as at the elementary school level. In this paper, the system is modeled using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) tool in the form of a use case diagram which is used to describe the proposed business process and uses class diagrams to describe the database model diagram. In this case, the class diagram is used to describe the data in the class diagram where each class refers to a table in the database. The web-based application user interface is shown at the end to show the communication between users and applications, where this web-based application is implemented using Personal Home Pages (PHP) as server programming and using MySQL to store database model designs. Moreover, for the Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), content was created using the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) which is an authoring tool for learning mathematics created by Carnegie Mellon University. In the end, this web-based application is expected to be used and support teachers as a complement to online mathematics learning, especially during difficult times such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Investigating Effective Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence in Teacher Education

“…Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) is an AI application in education that provides self-paced learning giving instant feedback to students. King et al (2021) utilised an ITS to help students learn mathematics and reported that the AI technique improved students' learning outcomes as well as their attitudes toward mathematics. Students who used the ITS performed better on tests than those who did not, demonstrating that AI is a useful tool for enhancing students' learning.…”

Indonesian students’ perceptions towards AI-based learning in mathematics

“…To be more specific, for senior high school, this understanding is lacking. Several studies argue that the implementation of Math application is centered around primary education (King et al, 2021;Pramana et al, 2021;Rachmavita, 2020) and higher education (Fuady et al, 2021;Syarif et al, 2021). There are studies of the implementation of math application in secondary level, however, it is more to junior high school level (Adnan & Anwar, 2020;Nida et al, 2020;Sumardi et al, 2021).…”

“…However, the topic was limited to only one small topic -the rules of filling slot in the field of probability. Another study conducted by King et al (2021) has also implemented CTAT but limited to a simple web-based application that allows teachers to upload modules to be learned by students. In other words, the adaptation of AI-based learning in mathematics education in Indonesia is still lacking.…”

Pelatihan Penyusunan E-Modul Berbasis Kecakapan Hidup untuk Guru Sekolah Dasar

“…Dampak ini dirasakan juga pada pada bidang pendidikan (Hambali et al, 2021;Mithhar et al, 2021) dan pembelajaran di sekolah dasar. Selama Pandemi Covid-19, sekolah ditutup dan sangat dibatasi untuk pertemuan tatap muka secara langsung (Friskawati et al, 2021;King et al, 2021). Kebijakan tersebut mendorong agar siswa belajar dari rumah dengan metode pembelajaran secara virtual (Rafiqa et al, 2021;Yulianti & Mukminin, 2021).…”