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Abstract Mathematical Communication Skills is the ability of the child to listen to, read about, write about, speak about, and reflect on an active mathematical situation. When left developed in early years, the development of mathematical communication skills can be affected. This study is using Computers Skills, the essential practices and fundamental knowledge preschool children need to acquire in a technological educational environment. This technological educational environment has been presented by Geometer’s Sketchpad to instruct pre-school children about numbers, pattern, and geometry and computer skills. A computer network will be used in order to transform common educational experiences such as class discussions, math conference, communication, sharing and collaboration with peers into exciting and unique project that involve the interaction of the learners. In mathematics education, children can share their mathematical thinking through a LAN. That interaction through networks helps break down communication barriers and inhabitation that that often stifle the open exchange of ideas in traditional classrooms. The conceptual framework for this stud drew on Bruce and Levin‘s (1997) (Bruce, 1997) framework of media for inquiry. This study used the quasi-experiential approach to identify the effectiveness of a program based on the knowledge-based network to develop the skills of using the computer and the mathematical communication for the pre-school children. A pre-school class on Alexandria district school in Alexandria, Egypt will be selected to be the site of the study. The students who participated in the study will be all in kindergarten school, level 2. Around 30 children distributed among two classes will be participated in the study. The entire participant will be observed in order to document all the children skills‘ in mathematical communication and using computer. This study contributes to using computer program‘ for enhancing children‘s skills in using computers and their mathematical communication. The results of this study indicate the effectiveness of the program based on the knowledge-based network to develop the skills of using the computer and the mathematical communication for the pre-school children. The children reacted positively to the knowledge based computer program and seemed to enjoy using the computer. |