Educational game for learning skills in creative and logic development on children aged three years
List of Authors
  • Rahmadi Agus , Suzani Mohamad Samuri

Keyword
  • Early Childhood, Assessment, Touch Interaction, Touch Screen, Education Games, Creative, and Logic education

Abstract
  • Early childhood education is a crucial education because first childhood curiosity about their environment and insights about new things make them want to do it. For this reason, this paper investigates the behavior and abilities of children aged 3 to 4 in creative and logical development. In this paper, the purposive sampling method is the method used to determine participants. The number of participants who will be involved in this study is as much as ten children with details of six boys and four girls. The study was conducted at the National Child Development Research Center (NCDRC) at University Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia. From this research, it was found that the learning process carried out for children aged 3 to 4 years can be optimized with educational games. Educational games can provide excellent development in childhood growth. In the process of creative and logical development, educational games can be used as a beneficial learning media to support these developments, with the existence of educational games able to provide apparent problems in the creative and logic development.

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