Gamifying Math Education using Object Detection

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Manipulatives used in the right way help improve mathematical concepts leading to better learning outcomes.

• In this paper, we present a phygital (physical + digital) curriculum inspired teaching system for kids aged 5-8 to learn geometry using shape tile manipulatives.
• Combining smaller shapes to form larger ones is an important skill kids learn early on which requires shape tiles to be placed close to each other in the play area.
• This introduces a challenge of oriented object detection for densely packed objects with arbitrary orientations.