Children who play games every day
and those with siblings score better in mathematics, but watching television
ruins their scores, reveals a latest study by NCERT National Achievement Survey.
Learning Maths is Fun!
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While
having more siblings did little to improve children's reading skills, it did
improve math marks: If those with over four siblings scored an average of
32.9%, grades fell for children with just one sibling.
The survey also found that access
to more books at home improved reading ability -- children with 25 or more
books scored 50.8%, while children with no books at home scored 42.6%. But
books did little for children to score more in math (a mere 2.5% improvement),
while children who read more did marginally well in science and social science,
pointed out S Anand, chief data scientist at Gramener, a data visualization and
analytics company which analyzed the data for NCERT.
The survey measured children's
learning achievement in language, mathematics, science and social science. It
analyzed data collected from 6,722 schools (government and government aided),
24,486 teachers and 1,88,647 students through tests and questionnaires from 33
states and Union territories. The objective was to understand what children in
schools know and can do at different stages of elementary education.
(Source: Times of India, Dec.10, 2015)
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