Fingu - a game-based learning environment for development of flexible arithmetic competence

One of the key goals for mathematics education around the world is to ensure all children’s proficiency with numbers and more generally to have a flexible and adaptive understanding and knowledge of arithmetic. Game-based learning environments are means to support the development of such competence. In this paper we describe our design-based research on Fingu, an application that targets the understanding and mastering of the basic numbers 1 to 10 as part-whole relations. The aim of this paper is to present the design rationale of Fingu and empirical research conducted in Swedish pre-school and primary school settings.