Encouraging the development of cognitive operations in early school age children by applying the system of didactic games

• Authors: Biljana Stojanović , Radmila Milovanović , Ivana Ćirković-Miladinović

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this research was to examine whether the development of cognitive abilities of students can be encouraged under the influence of didactic games. The research was conducted on a sample of 163 first grade primary school pupils and an experiment with parallel groups was applied. The results obtained have shown that there is a statistically significant difference (r=0.000 < 0.05) between the achievements of the experimental and control groups in recognizing, naming, abstracting, forming and defining geometric shapes. Hence, this proved that the possibility of applying this approach at the beginning of schooling should be considered.

Keywords

EN

cognitive development; game; geometric concepts; teaching

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 44
• Pages: 139-152

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Biljana Stojanović

author

Radmila Milovanović

author

Ivana Ćirković-Miladinović

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2016.44.2.11

Biblioteka Nauki

2004970