Developing Children’s Early Numeracy Skill Through Traditional Game “Dragon Snakes”

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10.2991/assehr.k.201201.043How to use a DOI?

Keywords

traditional game, dragon snakes, counting

Abstract

The early numeracy skill is needed by children to continue their higher education which relates to mentioning symbols of numbers, sorting numbers, adding, subtracting, and knowing more and less. The numeracy skills can be improved through traditional games, namely dragon snake. The rules of the Dragon snake game were; the children took two cards, then, added the numbers and the pictures on those cards. The purpose of this study was to determine the development of numeracy skills of children aged 5-6 years through the traditional game “dragon snakes”. The research method used was a quantitative research with Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The sample in this study was 62 children aged 5-6 years in Karanggeneng Subdistrict, Lamongan district. Data were collected using tests, observations and documentation. Data were analysed using Mann-Whitney data analysis that obtained Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that children are easier to learn early numeracy through traditional game “dragon snake” modified with the number cards provided.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nur I.S. Rakhmawati
AU  - Rachma Hasibuan
AU  - Imroatus Sholichah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - Developing Children’s Early Numeracy Skill Through Traditional Game “Dragon Snakes”
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 243
EP  - 249
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.043
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.043
ID  - Rakhmawati2020
ER  -