Escape Rooms as Socio- Cultural Learning Environments in Primary School Mathematics: Designing Collaborative and Digitally Mediated Practices
Ethnomathematics and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, IGI Global, ss.85-111, 2026
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.4018/979-8-2600-3485-9.ch003
- Yayınevi: IGI Global
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.85-111
- Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This chapter examines how escape- room- based digital tasks function as sociocultural learning environments supporting collaborative mathematical participation among fourth- grade students. Nine student groups worked collaboratively on Code. org tasks involving angles, direction, geometric shapes, and spatial reasoning. Data were collected through video recordings, field notes, and focus group interviews and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Findings revealed four interconnected dimensions of collaborative activity: participation structures, iterative experimentation, artefact- supported regulation, and planning- oriented reasoning. Despite using the digital platform for the first time, students successfully coordinated actions, predicted directional outcomes, and constructed geometric shapes collaborative-ly. The chapter demonstrates how escape rooms can be intentionally designed to support spatial reasoning, shared dialogue, and participation- rich mathematics learning environments.