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Board games history: Greek and Roman skill games

Posted by: Luk on: October 30, 2009

Greek and Roman games are one of the little known aspects of these ancient societies.
In Hellenistic and Roman culture skill games were a recreational activity both for children and adults. Since prehistoric times is possible to recognize the so-called ancestors of games and toys among the archeological finds and in the works of Hellenic [...]

Games news: chess and education in Germany

Posted by: Luk on: September 11, 2009

Germany,
This summer instead of going on holidays, a group of researchers from the University of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, studied the experimental introduction of chess in elementary school for the new academic year.
The results show that 6 years old children that have begun to learn how to play chess learn more easly not only math but [...]

Classic board games memories

Posted by: Luk on: September 8, 2009

Once upon a time families used to have fun playing classic board games, this was before the tv and the digital revolution where fun and games are always condensed into a screen.
Some of us seem really nostalgic for those happy days, when families had fun together sitting around a table and playing classic board games, [...]

WASHINGTON
Americans little girls learn how to be a mother too soon with the new Baby glutton, a doll that simulate the breast-feeding with sounds and mouth movements. This toy, produced by Berjuan, a spanish company, comes with a special bra for girls to make the playing mother experience as real as possible.
The doll as special [...]

Life skills games

Posted by: Luk on: July 29, 2009

When a parent is looking for a gift for his kid, he should find one of those clever games that will help him build his logical and creative mind.
Parent’s favourite choice in this sense has to be a life skill game such as an educational board game, a quiz game or a construction toy.
Kids love [...]

How to make math more interesting for kids

Posted by: Luk on: July 4, 2009

Some children hate math, was the same for me when I was a kid, like many other classmates of mine I didn’t like numbers, equations and when  our teachers explained  formulas and wrote exercises on the board my mind was always somewhere else.
I think the real problem is that math appears boring to the kids [...]

Games are very important during the child’s growth, and for this reason is very important promote clever gaming activities to our kids. On a social level, children start to develop their gaming activities in three different stages:

Individual games; is typical of new born babies  and it doesn’t involve any social interaction;
Collateral games, children between [...]

Games and Recreational activities play an fundamental role in child development. Spencer affirms that both man and animals have a surplus of energies utilized in games and recreational activities; in 1900 Carl Cross noticed that games and recreational activities are a sort of exercise utilized to develop motor skills and mental faculties, an [...]

What we can learn from clever games

Posted by: Luk on: May 26, 2009

Modern board games are thought and developed to improve or brain skills and mind activities:
other than fun enjoinment and pleasure, those clever games are one of the best way to learn about our history, literacy, to develop a goal motivation and general knowledge, to build a
Intuitively thought, to take risks and forecast the consequences, to [...]

Role game: only for creative people

Posted by: Luk on: May 16, 2009

I would like to start this new column, to explain and enlighten anyone interested to that particular form of gaming called role game.
Role games are now very popular all over the world. More than 1000 games were published after the first launch in 1974 of “Dungeons & Dragons”, the father of all modern role games; [...]


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