The Effets of Mathematic Education Game to Enhance Mathmatic Skill for Early Childhood

Abstract

The purpose of this research is 1) to study the result of integrating basic mathematics with educational games for  Early Childhood and2)  to compare the results of integrating basic mathematics with educational games both before and after; to show whether or not mathematics improved with educational games. The research uses simple random sampling to find participants. The simple participants are children included 23 students, aged 3 – 4 years who are studying in Kindergarten 1 during the first term 2020 at Tessaban 2 Nongbua School, Nai-Mueang Ubon District, Ubon Ratchathani Province. The school is under The Department of Education Ubon Ratchathani. The experiment was conducted in a period of 4 weeks, from Monday through Friday, 30 minutes per day during 2:30–3.00. The research methods include 20 lessons and a Mathematics exam for Kindergarten skill. The statistics analyzed data included mean, standard deviation and t-test (dependent samples t-test analysis

            The research found that using educational games did improve the basic mathematics skill of kindergarten students, it was shown that this activity increased overall individual test scores, and was significant at .01 level.