{"id":476,"date":"2008-09-25T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-09-25T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:00:50","slug":"video-games-make-you-better-at-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/09\/25\/video-games-make-you-better-at-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Games make you better at Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"i_9008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/i_9008.jpg\" alt=\"Brain Age\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/i_9008.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/i_9008-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least if you play Brain Age, <a href=\"http:\/\/ltsblogs.org.uk\/consolarium\/2008\/09\/25\/dr-kawashima-extended-trial-summary-results\/\">according to a Scottish study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ltsblogs.org.uk\/consolarium\/files\/2008\/09\/lts-dr-kawashima-trial-summary.pdf\">report <\/a>describes how children who were instructed to play Brain Age for 30 minutes every day improved their math skills faster than children having normal class during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the graph:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-478\" title=\"improvement\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/improvement.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of result we want to hear, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least if you play Brain Age, according to a Scottish study. The report describes how children who were instructed to play Brain Age for 30 minutes every day improved their math skills faster than children having normal class during that time. Here&#8217;s the graph: It&#8217;s the kind of result we want to hear, isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/09\/25\/video-games-make-you-better-at-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video Games make you better at Math&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}