Investigating the Effect of Pre-School Mental Arithmetic Education on the Visual Perception of the Student

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perception level of the preschool kids was investigated. In this study, quantitative research model was used and the findings were supported with qualitative data. The Visual Perception Scale developed by the researchers was employed to measure visual perception levels. The study group consists of students aged 4 to 6 total of 40 students participated in the study; 20 students in the experiment group and 20 students in the control group. In order to investigate whether the groups are equivalent, Levene and Scheffe tests were performed. The data was obtained by analyzing the pre-test and the post-test applied before and after abacus mental arithmetic training, reports of year-end development and parent survey results. Related and “independent samples t tests”, “t-test”, “arithmetic mean”, “standard deviation”, and “content analysis” were utilized to analyze the data. According to the results, it was found that abacus mental arithmetic education improves the “visual perception”, “pattern discrimination”, “figure-ground discrimination”, “matching” and “attention” skills in the children.

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Abacus training , mental arithmetic , visual perception scale , preschool

ege journal of education

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2016

ege journal of education