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2. Learning through play - Wikipedia

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   Play is essential for a child's optimal social, cognitive, physical, and emotional development. [20] Researchers agree that play establishes a foundation for intellectual growth, creativity, and basic academic knowledge. [3] [25] [26] According to Dorothy Singer, make-believe games allow children to imagine different roles and scenarios.

3. Chess as mental training - Wikipedia

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   As early as 1779 [5] Benjamin Franklin, in his article The morals of chess, advocated such a view, saying: . The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to ...

4. Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia

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   Moreover, Piaget claimed that cognitive development is at the centre of the human organism, and language is contingent on knowledge and understanding acquired through cognitive development. [6] Piaget's earlier work received the greatest attention. Child-centred classrooms and "open education" are direct applications of Piaget's views. [7]

5. Child development stages - Wikipedia

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   6 years At this age, until age 7, the adult muscle activation pattern in walking is complete. Leads to head control and trunk coordination while walking, by at least age 8. Mechanical energy transfer exists; Copies a diamond; Knows right from left and number of fingers; Fluent speech 7 years Hand-eye coordination is well developed. Has good ...

6. Educational toy - Wikipedia

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   Play is important for children's cognitive, emotional, and social development. [60] [61] Teachers who use educational toys in classroom settings try to identify toys that will be appropriate to a child's developmental level, existing skills, and interests. They try to engage children with toys in ways that support cognitive development. [60]

7. Cognitive development - Wikipedia

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   Jean Piaget is inexorably linked to cognitive development as he was the first to systematically study developmental processes. [6] Despite being the first to develop a systemic study of cognitive development, Piaget was not the first to theorize about cognitive development. [7] Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote Emile, or On Education in 1762. [8]