Interesting Child-Education Article
A study finds that children who are taught verbally with reinforcing gestures learn better; those who are taught verbally with complimentary gestures learn better still. Repetition is the key to learning and it seems that complementarity is the "open sesame".
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I found this pararaph interesting...
"Children who saw the complementary gestures did best, solving three of the four addition problems correctly, on average. By comparison, those children who witnessed simple illustrative gestures typically solved fewer than two of the problems correctly. And students who received only verbal instructions solved only one of the four problems correctly, on average."
The students who did best got three right. The students who did second best solved fewer than two. And the students who did worst solved one. Last time I checked, "fewer than two" is one, unless it's possible to get a math problem half-right, and if it is, I have to go through a lot of my homeschool work and get Mom to give me credit for the ones I got half-right...
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