The impact of MOBA games on the Mathematical skills of High School

Students

Group 7

Grade 12 STEM- Hawking

Jay-ar Calderon
Jerome G. Caoile
Shailla Mae A. Orbizo
Vivianne Lorriene L. De Guzman
Justin Jon B. Conde
Introduction

With today’s society, playing MOBA games are the hype among students,

especially League of Legends. It is commonly viewed as inflicting a negative effect on

the performances of students, however new studies show otherwise.

Funk (2015) said that Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game is a genre

of video-game strategy that originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy, in which a

player controls a single character in one two teams. The objective is to destroy the

opposing team’s main structure with the assistance of periodically spawned computer-

controlled units that march forward along set paths. Player characters typically have

various abilities and advantages that improve over the course of a game. They contribute

to a team’s overall strategy which enhance the person’s critical thinking because this

game required planning and took time to strategize. Similarly, it helps the students to

improve their metacognitive abilities.

Statement of the problem

The study determined the effects of playing MOBA games on the critical thinking

ability of the students.

The study sought to answer the following questions.

1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

a. age;

b. sex;

c. grade level

d. type of MOBA Game (Dota or LOL); and

 e. frequency of playing the game?

2. Is there an impact in playing MOBA games to the mathematical skills of high

school students in terms of:

a. Number Sense

b. Representation

c. Pattern

d. Problem Solving

3. Is there a significant relationship between the profile variables and the

mathematical skills of High School students?

4. Is there a significant difference among the four indicators of mathematical skills

of High School students?

Assumptions

1. There is an impact in playing MOBA games to the mathematical skills of High

School students.

2. There is no significant relationship between the profile variables and the

mathematical skills of High School students.

3. There is no significant difference among the four indicators of mathematical skills

of High School students.

Significance of the study

This part of the study discussed about the significant importance and benefits of

conducting this research to the following:

 Students. By being aware of the conclusion, students will be more enlightened as

to why video games can play as a factor on why some of them are good at Mathematical

skills and some are not. And being conscious of the after effects, students will be able to

know themselves more and that it’ll help in self- awareness aspect of the person.

Teachers. By knowing the results, teachers will have more infallible knowledge

about why certain students are behaving better than others when it comes to certain

subjects-in this case, subjects that are related to mathematical skills namely; Number

sense, Representation, Pattern and Problem Solving.

Parents. By being informed, parents who are dealing with problematic teenagers

will know what’s causing it and by knowing what’s causing it, they’ll know how to deal

with it and how to approach their children.

School Administrators.

Computer Shop Owner.

Future researchers. The outcome will contribute to further studies on how

MOBA games affect the mathematical skills of high school students. This will provide a

larger scope of information to future researchers.

Scope and Delimitations of the study

This study focus on the impact of playing MOBA games by High School students.

This study was conducted to determine the mathematics skills of High School students

who frequently played online games. The respondents are 60 High School students at

Urdaneta City National High School (UCNHS) located at San Vicente, Urdaneta City
who was identified by the Researchers as gamer. The collection of data was conducted on

___________________ using experimental one group pre-test, post test method.

Madonna J. Palaganas

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