Nintendo Brain Training and Math in UK Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 25, 2008

Com­put­er game boosts maths scores (BBC): — “It also found improve­ments in pupils’ con­cen­tra­tion and behav­iour.” — “The study involved more than 600 pupils in 32 schools across Scot­land using the Brain Train­ing from Dr Kawashima game on the Nin­ten­do DS every day.” — “Researchers found that while all groups had improved their scores, the group…

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Nintendo Brain Training, bestseller in Europe

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 16, 2008

From a recent arti­cle: Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) — “Over­all, four of the ten best­selling DS games in both coun­tries dur­ing the first six months of 2008 were in the brain train­ing genre.” — “Accord­ing to data released by sales mon­i­tor Media Con­trol GfK Inter­na­tion­al, the DS’s heavy­weight sta­tus in the European…

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