The Effect of a Numerical Domino Game on Numerical Magnitude Processing in Children With Mild Intellectual Disabilities | Zendy

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The Effect of a Numerical Domino Game on Numerical Magnitude Processing in Children With Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Author(s) -

Brankaer Carmen,

Ghesquière Pol,

De Smedt Bert

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

mind, brain, and education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1751-228X

pISSN - 1751-2271

DOI - 10.1111/mbe.12065

Subject(s) - domino , task (project management) , arithmetic , domino effect , computer simulation , numerical analysis , computer science , mathematics , psychology , simulation , engineering , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , systems engineering , nuclear physics , catalysis

Children with mild intellectual disabilities ( MID ) appear to have particular problems in understanding the numerical meaning of Arabic digits. Therefore, we developed and evaluated a numerical domino game that specifically targeted the association between these digits and the numerical magnitudes they represent. Participants were 30 children with MID ( M = 8.36 years), randomly assigned to either the numerical domino game or to a control color domino game. Findings revealed that both groups of children improved on a nonsymbolic comparison and arithmetic task. Most importantly, only children who played the numerical domino game became significantly faster from pretest to posttest on a symbolic comparison task. These findings suggest that numerical magnitude processing can be successfully trained in children with MID .

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