Mind Games with the Views of Classroom Teachers

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the views of classroom teachers about mind games in Turkey and a survey model was used. The research was carried out with the phenomenological design from qualitative research methods. Thirty-one primary school teachers were selected by the criterion sampling method which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. In order to collect the data, the opinion form prepared by the researcher was completed by classroom teachers. The documents obtained were analyzed with the content analysis method. It was seen in the study that teachers usually play mind games with students in the Free Activities course, mainly for 2 hours per week, strategy games were played most, memory games were the least played games, and mind games contributed to communication, creativity, problem solving, mathematical and logical thinking, and academic skills. In addition, classroom teachers experienced some problems related to classroom management, to physical conditions and student characteristics while playing mind games. In line with the results, it is suggested that the multi-dimensional development of students be supported by playing mind games at every grade level.

Preservice Teachers’ Views about the Use of Mind and Intelligence Games in Education

“…However, they stated that large class sizes and management issues would be barriers to implementing intelligence games in education. These findings are in line with the literature, where views of classroom teachers also revealed similar barriers (Kula, 2021). Cole-Hamilton, Harrop, and Street (2002) also stated that especially the large class size and the lack of classroom assistants are important limitations in their systematic review study.…”

“…Educational games can be very effective on children's physical, mental, social, emotional, and language development. Especially with the emergence of today's student-centered modern approaches, they have come to the fore even more (Kula, 2021;Sütçü, 2020;Taş & Yöndemli, 2018).…”

Integration of critical thinking and reasoning skills into lessons through block factor game for finding factors of a number

“…The activity games especially the 'brain factor game' were effective in promoting students' creativity and critical thinking. Kula (2021) found that mind games contribute to students' communication, creativity, problem solving, mathematical and logical thinking, and academic skills for their functioning in the world. Every student irrespective of the geographical location should have the opportunity to learn to think mathematically and reason mathematically (both deductive and inductive) in classrooms (OECD, 2021b), and teachers can provide this opportunity through mind games.…”

Geometrik Mekanik Zekâ Oyunlarının İlköğretim 3. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Akademik Başarılarına ve Üç Boyutlu Geometrik Düşünme Becerilerine Etkisi

“…Geometrik-mekanik zekâ oyunlarının uygulandığı deney grubunda öğrencilerin üç boyutlu geometrik düşünme testi (3BGT) fark puanları cinsiyete göre farklılaşmakta mıdır? Alanyazında zekâ oyunlarının öğrencilerin akademik başarısını, iletişim, yaratıcılık, problem çözme, mantıksal-matematiksel düşünme becerilerini olumlu etkilediği (Şahin, 2019;Kula, 2021), akıl yürütme ve muhakeme etme (Reiter, Thorton ve Vannebush, 2014), dikkat ve görsel algı (Altun, 2017;Yağlı, 2019) ile zihinsel beceri düzeylerini artırdığı (Marangoz, 2018), motivasyonu ve matematik öğrenimini etkileyerek zekâ bölümlerini (IQ) (Chizary ve Farhangi, 2017) geliştirdiği görülmüştür. Bununla birlikte düzlemsel ve uzamsal modelleme kullanılarak öğretici oyunlarla yapılan öğretimin ortaokul öğrencilerinin uzamsal görselleştirme becerilerini geliştirdiği (Totikova, Yessaliyev, Madiyarov, Medetbekova, 2020), geometrik mekanik zeka oyunları uygulamalarının uzamsal düşünme becerilerini (Demirkaya ve Masal, 2017), dinamik geometri bilgisayar yazılımı kullanımının ise 9.sınıf düzeyindeki öğrencilerin geometrik düşünme becerilerini attırdığı (Adelabu, Makgato, Ramaligela, 2019) görülmüştür.…”