Magical Garden

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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

Magical Garden is a teachable-agent play-and-learn tablet game developed by Gulz et al. for preschool children’s early number sense and basic mathematics learning.

Components

Claims

• The TA-gaze result is interpreted as preschoolers understanding the teachable agent as an entity with agency that acts on its own knowledge [+W]
• In preschoolers playing Magical Garden, two measured gaze behaviors were positively correlated with the game performance measure, as hypothesized [+W]
• Preschoolers looked at the teachable agent significantly more often when the agent had been in charge of gameplay than when it had not [+W]

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Key Sources

• Gulz, Agneta; Londos, Ludvig & Haake, Magnus. (2020). Preschoolers' Understanding of a Teachable Agent-Based Game in Early Mathematics as Reflected in their Gaze Behaviors – an Experimental Study. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2020) 30:38–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-020-00193-4

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id	magical-garden
title	Magical Garden
description	Magical Garden is a teachable-agent play-and-learn tablet game developed by Gulz et al.
status	review
product_kind	software
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-27
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