A really interesting story about an educational experiment has emerged on the Learning And Teaching Scotland site, which essentially proves that Brain Training’s claims about sharpening your mind are absolutely spot on.
The study saw one group of children given the DS title for ten weeks, with the children allowed to play the game for between fifteen and twenty minutes in the morning. A second group started a Brain Gym program - a series of physical movements thought to improve learning and performance. The third set of students had access to neither.
After these training periods, the children were given two tests they’d already completed before the training took place, with the results from the two sets (before and after) compared - and some interesting findings emerged. While the Brain Gym students saw an improvement in the maths test results and a reduction in the time taken to complete the test, the DS group saw the most significant advances - particularly in the completion time, which was massively reduced. Evidently, the way that Brain Training grades you according to time taken as well as accuracy had an impact on the students who trained daily.
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