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Jigsaw puzzle

1.Some parents will buy any high-tech toy if they think it will help their child, but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.

2.Psychologist Susan Levine, an expert on mathematics development in young children the University of Chicago, found children who play with puzzles between ages 2 and 4 later develop better spatial skills.

3.Puzzle play was found to be a significant predictor of cognition after controlling for differences in parents’ income, education and the amount of parent talk, Levine said.

4.The researchers 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 assessed at 54 months of age.

5.“The children who played with puzzles performed better than those who did not, on tasks that assessed their ability to rotate and translate shapes,” Levine said in a statement.

6.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.

7.Higher-income parents tended to have children play with puzzles more frequently, and both boys and girls who played with puzzles had better spatial skills.

8.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.

9.The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.

第十四篇

拼图游戏

1.一些父母会购买任何高科技玩具，只要他们认为这对孩子有帮助，但研究人员表示，拼图可以帮助孩子提高数学相关技能。

2.芝加哥大学研究幼儿数学发展的心理学家苏珊·莱文发现，在2岁到4岁之间玩拼图游戏的孩子日后会发展出更好的空间技能。

3.莱文说，在控制了父母收入、受教育程度和父母谈话时间的差异后，他们发现玩益智游戏是一个重要的认知预测指标。

4.研究人员分析了53对孩子和父母在家里日常活动的录像，发现在26到46个月大的时候玩拼图的孩子在54个月大的时候有更好的空间技能。

5.莱文在一份声明中说:在评估旋转和转换形状能力的任务中，玩拼图的孩子比不玩拼图的孩子表现得更好。

6.父母被要求像往常一样与孩子互动，研究中约有一半的孩子玩过一次拼图。

7.高收入的父母往往让孩子更频繁地玩拼图，玩拼图的男孩和女孩都有更好的空间技能。

8.然而，男孩比女孩更倾向于玩更复杂的谜题，男孩的父母比女孩的父母提供更多的空间语言，在谜题游戏中更活跃。

  9.研究结果发表在《发展科学》杂志上。