The importance of board games in the attention and memory development at school

• Grant number: 18/03813-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date until: June 01, 2018
• End date until: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Irineu Aliprando Viotto Filho
• Grantee: Yanca Rodrigues Libron
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project mains to analyze the importance of board games to overcome school learning disabilities manifested by children at the age between six and seven years old from public schools of the city at Presidente Prudente/SP. Based on the observations made by the members of the GEIPEEthc, the children involved in the study had showed difficulties on the memorization of what were taught to them as well as keeping attention to the interventions proposed. Therefore, this project aims to analyze the importance of the ludo-pedagogical activities planned for the teacher for the children´s development of memory and attention and also, to analyze their contribution of the games to overcome learning difficulties which the children find inside the school. (AU)