The educational toys effect on learning rate of premathematical number concepts in preschool children of Tabriz in 85-86

• Main Authors: Farkhondeh Mofidi, Zeynab Teymoori
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2008-08-01
• Series: آموزش و ارزشیابی
• Subjects: educational toys; pre-mathematic number concepts (more – less – wide –narrow – long – short – far– close)
• Online Access: http://jinev.iaut.ac.ir/article_522003_252ae7bc5b05f987aaf74ecab823e21e.pdf

The purpose of this research is investigating educational toys effect in pre – mathematical number concepts such as : more – less ,wide – narrow , short – long , near – far , fat – lean , tall – little , light –heavy and small – big in  preschool children of Tabriz in 85-86.       The sample size, using the cluster random sampling was 30 preschool students. The method of collecting data was a researcher made questionnaire. The validity of questions was affimed by supervisor and advisory professors and seven preschool educators and specialist managers. The reliability coefficient was O.q2.A pre – test and a post – test was conducted. The instruction was implemented through instruments manufactured by experiential entertainment company for learning pre – mathematical concepts which included: measurement cylinders, ring pyramid, set of classified features, stacked dice, scale and lego. The major question of the study was that whether educational toys have effect on learning of pre – mathematical concepts. To pre – test and post – test indicated that there is meaningful difference between learning of these concepts in pre – test and post – test. The situation of students that learned with toys , has become better. Key words : instructional learning toys – premathematical number concepts (i.e more – less, wide – narrow, short – long, far – near, fat- lean, small – big, light – heavy).