[CALIBK12] [CSLA Research Update] Math study

[Lesley Farmer]

Study: Gesturing may prime children's brains to learn mathStudents told
to gesture are four times more likely to correctly express new ways to
solve a math problem, according to a study of third- and fourth-graders
by researchers at the University of Chicago. Children told to gesture
who then received a lesson were able to solve 1.5 times more problems
correctly than those told not to gesture. Broaders, S., et al. (2007).
Making Children Gesture Brings Out Implicit Knowledge and Leads to
Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(4).

--
Posted By Lesley Farmer to CSLA Research Update at 11/06/2007 03:13:00
PM
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sjsu.edu/pipermail/calibk12/attachments/20071106/17a7c1e3/attachment.html