A COMPARISON MATHEMATICS BASIC SKILLS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING THINKING ABILITIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD BETWEEN COOKING ACTIVITIES AND EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to :  1)  study  lesson plan’s  using  cooking activities and use educational game for developing basic math skills and the ability to solve problems of early childhood to be effective  2)  to find the efficiency and the efficiency index of learning activities;  3) to compare basic math skills and the ability to solve problem of early childhood between cooking activities the use of educational games between before  and after the experience  4) to compare basic math skills and the ability to solve problems of early childhood between the groups were organized cooking  the use of educational games. The sample consisted of 40 early childhood age 3-5 years attending child development center in Bankang Sub- District Nakhon Phanom Province. The instruments used in this study included:  (1)  lesson plans on cooking activities  and  educational games approaches,  (2)  a  test of basic math skills   (3)  a test of  problem solving thinking ability  (4.)  item 0bservation on behavior in organization.  The statistics used in this study were mean, standard deviation, t-statics and One Way ANOVA.

            The findings revealed that;  (1) the efficiency of   basic math skills and Problem solving thinking ability of early childhood between cooking activities and educational game approaches  were 80.97/80.62  and  87.09/86.75  respectively and the Efficiency Index of each was 0.7420 and 0.8123 respectively;  (2)  The basic math skills and Problem solving thinking ability of early childhood who learning using cooking activities and educational game between before and after learning found after learning were higher than before learning at .01 level of  significance. (3) The basic math skills and Problem solving thinking ability of early childhood who learning using educational game were higher than cooking activities   at .05 level of significance.