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Osnabrück (dpa / lni) - Playing simple board games with number cubes can lead to the development of better mathematical skills in young children.
This is shown by the new study by a mathematics didactic from the University of Osnabrück, as the university announced on Monday.
It was therefore already known that specially developed games with a promotional character have a positive effect on the development of numerical understanding.
The effect of games like “Mensch ärgere Dich nicht” and “Fang den Hut” has now been proven.
Professor Hedwig Gasteiger (University of Osnabrück) and co-author Korbinian Möller, Professor of Mathematical Cognition at Loughborough University in Great Britain, tested four- to six-year-old children in seven half-hour training sessions over a period of four weeks.
It showed that children who played board games with traditional number cubes develop better in their mathematical skills than children who played board games with color or symbol cubes.
In a direct before-and-after comparison, the children who played games with conventional six-dice did better at counting and recognizing structures and using them, it said.
Even one year after the training sessions, the researchers observed noticeable differences between the two comparison groups in this regard.
"Our study shows that playing conventional board games with traditional dice is an effective and very low-threshold promotion of early numerical skills," said Gasteiger according to the press release.
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