Your move: The effect of chess on mathematics test scores.

We analyse the effect of substituting a weekly mathematics lesson in primary school grades 1-3 with a lesson in mathematics based on chess instruction. We use data from the City of Aarhus in Denmark, combining test score data with a comprehensive data set obtained from administrative registers. We u...

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Main Authors: Michael Rosholm, Mai Bjørnskov Mikkelsen, Kamilla Gumede
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5426665?pdf=render