Augmented Reality for Education and Teaching Mathematical Concepts 1 st Author 2 nd Author 3 rd Author K.G.D.Thamarasee Faculty of Information Technology University of Moratuwa ,Sri Lanka dtkgamage@gmail.com K.A. Dilini T. Kulawansa Department of Computational Mathematics Faculty of Information Technology University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (+94)77-7316627, incl. 10400 dilinik@uom.lk A . S Karunananda Department of Computational Mathematics Faculty of Information Technology University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (+94)714-449504, incl. 10400 asokakaru@uom.lk Abstract-At present education field, use technology to improve the quality of teaching and learning strategies. Sometimes some theories and problems cannot be clearly identified by the student, and also teaching is very difficult. They may be mathematical concepts, science studies, medical studies, geometrical studies…etc. For example structure of a molecule, an atom, a planetary system are difficult to describe clearly. So using the Augmented Reality(AR) as a medium of study, teaching and learning will be very interactive for the students. Then they will learn easily and attractively. Because the technology AR brings the real world things as a virtual things in front of the users. This review moves in to the technique of augmented reality and how it can be utilized to teach mathematical concepts through more student centered manner. Furthermore it describes about the limitations, when using this technology in school and university education. Keywords: Technology, Augmented Reality (AR), Education, Mathematics. I. INTRODUCTION As we experience today, Applied Information technology has made revolutionarily impact for our day today life. IT has applied everywhere possible to bring it easy and simple. In that context lots of IT based tools has been developed and being utilized in education field. This research paper moves into the technique of augmented reality and how it can be utilized to teach mathematical concepts through more student centered manner. To create a successful world, one needs to consider about education as it is the most important area.So when people haven’t proper knowledge then they move on to wrong way to develop the world.But anyone knows that the man-made machines or products destroy man at one day. That’s why the education become most important field when developing the world. In modern world all the fields are rapidly developing through the technology. And also at a second there are many number of technologies have been born at present. But such development, modern products, and services do not go in such speed to reach the large number of people in the world. Therefore, education system must be Improved to face successfully for that changes and challengesAugmented reality means how the 3D virtual objects are integrated to 3D real objects in real world environment. So AR allows to see real world to the user using virtual objects [25]. Fig1: Augmented Reality and Real world Now a days this technology is used in many areas,such as medical, entertainment,manufacturing,visualization, engineering design, robotics, military and education [1]. Examples for applied Augmented Reality are as follows. Imagine a customer who walks among racks of a super market. He has to touch and/or go close to each and every items of a particular good in order to check price. If a customer can see the prices of goods while standing on corner and see what items has discounts in same way through a mobile device such as a tablet computer or smart phone. It will bring the customer greater easiness and remove unwanted movements in the super market.