2020年高考全国甲卷英语应用文
Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child,but rearchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.
Psychologist Susan Levine,an expert on mathematics development in young children theUniversity of Chicago,found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4laterdevelop better spatial skills.Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition(认知) after controlling for differences in parents’ income,education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.
The rearchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during everyday activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assd at 54 months of age.
“The childrenwho played with puzzles performed better than tho who did not,on tasks that assd their ability to rotate(旋转)and translate shapes,”Levine said in a statement.
The parents were asked to interact with their children as they normally would,and about half of children in the study played with puzzles at one time.Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently,and both boys andgirls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills.However,boys tended to play with more complex puzzles than girls,and the parents of boys provided more spatial language and were more active during puzzle play than parents of girls.
The findings were published in the journalDevelopmental Science.
