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Board games boost skills
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
2 April 2008
Playing board games such as snakes and ladders improves a pre-school child's numerical skills, according to new research.
American scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Maryland found a measured improvement in the number skills of children aged four and five years old after playing a number game. Over a fortnight, the 124 children in the study played either a number board game or a parallel colour-based game with an experimenter for four 15-minute sessions. The researchers said their counting and numerical identification skills improved and the effect was still evident nine weeks later. Dr Geetha Ramani, psychologist and co-author of...
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