In the middle school years, the period when mathematics concepts become harder, the dropout rate of students increases in India. The goal of the project is to develop ways in which students could learn abstract concepts in mathematics in a concrete, interactive manner with the real world. To realise this, the middle school topic of "Exponents and Powers" was chosen for study.

A study on the content of the topic and current teaching methods revealed interesting user needs in the areas of visualising, remembering, and using the concepts, as well as a need to have a better connection with the real world. The solution of this project is an in-home activity using an augmented reality-enabled smart-phone application along with common physical objects like erasers, ice-cream sticks, etc. The application has the capability to augment duplicates of the objects detected in the real world with the smart-phone camera and use those visualisations to perform various tasks with respect to exponents and powers. These visualisations, which are augmented with real-world objects, help students better connect with abstract concepts by enriching memory recall and improving their emotional connection with the subject. The application has a small video window where the instructor walks you through the content and associated physical tasks. The solution was evaluated for its effectiveness in helping the students gain cognitive abilities as follows: remembering facts, remembering concepts, using concepts, remembering procedures, and using procedures. The evaluation results ascertaining the improvements in memory recall and emotional connection with mathematics were used to conclude the effectiveness of this solution.