Any kids out there reading this: use this for ammo the next time your parents balk at letting you get a DS. Alternatively, parents reading this who are balking at buying a DS for a child: no, buy it and just your kid play Brain Age every day.
A recent study by Learning and Teaching Scotland reveals that students who played twenty minutes of Brain Age (a.k.a. Brain Training in Europe) every day at the start of class showed dramatic improvements in math ability, test-taking skills, concentration, and behavior over the course of the nine week program. Even better: slower learners benefited more than students with already-high scores, and there was no difference in performance gains among girls and boys.
Nintendo has always sworn up and down that Brain Age was just for entertainment, or at best for keeping an older person's mind sharp, but apparently the software has huge benefits to offer kids when used as a teaching tool. Hopefully this study crosses the Atlantic and gets some American educators thinking of ways to use DS games as part of math education curricula.
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