Education in every country is very critical to each one of us. This project seeks to identify the problems associated with learning at the elementary level, and the highlights the effects of poor educational foundations have on children when they grow to learn at the advanced level. The project proposes the designing and implementing of an educational video game app that can assist children from ages 2 to 7 years in overcoming the challenges associated with poor educational foundation in most developing countries in Africa especially. This app is design by creating an intuitive mobile application that will aid in the understanding of basic concepts associated with learning and the ability for elementary school children to employ this in their respective everyday activities. The project is also designed to encourage children in the whole study process hence not making it boring but exciting and more fun for children as well. It also seeks to help parents’ teachers and guardians to track the progress of children who use the application and helps them know the needed support that they require to make each study session a success. The study incorporates a rigorous literature review that seeks to identify all the gaps associated with solving the problem. This project adopts the Scrum methodology. The scrum method is a simple adaptive framework to deliver working software in sprints. It has three main stakeholders the Product owner, scrum master and the team members. It uses two main artifacts namely the product backlog and the sprint backlog to guide the team during sprints. The study concluded that the use of educational video games in learning math and English by the children is helpful since the children can quickly grasp the concepts within very short period.

Keywords: Educational games, Cognitive development, Game app, Early childhood education, Information systems education, Digital Game-Based Learning.

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