In this study, educational materials has been developed by using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) platform on the
computer system with multi-point touch surface for children in the pre-school education with 5-6 age group in order to learn
“time” term. These educational materials have been applied to experiment group (20 pre-school students) during 5 weeks. In
order to measure the performance of this process, pre-test and last-test has been applied to the control group (other 20 pre-school
students) whom educated traditional method. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is implemented for availability of the distribution of
variables. Then, T-test and Chi-square test are performed for getting the meaningfulness between two group's successes.
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Keywords: Computer aided education; multi-touch surface; pre-school education
1. Introduction
While developments in science and technology creating new training requirements, on the one hand are able to
provide new opportunities for education. Of course, computers are one of these possibilities. Today, computers are
started to use by people whose different aims and interest; even they have been an integral part of everyday life.
Nowadays, The place of "Is the computer used in education?" "How do we use the computers in education
effectively and efficiently?" takes. Increasingly widespread use of computers in the life of individuals and society of
tomorrow's world very different from today's complex gives the impression to be at an advanced level. Adopting the
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