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100
Playing _____________ video games help children master their fears in real life.
Playing scary and violent video games
100
Finnish children are not measured at all for the first _____ years of their education.
Six years
100
Teaching kids at a very early age is ___________ to their learning
Teaching kids at a very early age is counterproductive to their learning
100
_________ helps children learn the concept of place value in math.
Rapping
100
If you are left-handed or ambidextrous how much larger is you corpus collosum compared to right handed people?
11%
200
Which popular game with 32 pieces helps teach concentration?
chess
200
Finland spends _______ more per student compared to Spain
300 Euros
200
The youngest student to get a PHD was aged ______
Kim Ung-Yong – 15 Imagine being a guest student at a university when you’re three years old and being invited to do research for NASA when you’re eight. It’s pretty hard to wrap your mind around. Yet South Korean former child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong doesn’t have to imagine; for him, it was a reality.
200
Which type of music has been shown to help concentration?
Classical music has been shown to help concentration,
200
Children who participate in _________ activities experience increase in memory retention. (FUN)
laughing
300
Playing with ________ increases a child's neuron count A- blocks B- cars C- animals
A - blocks
300
Science classes are capped at ______ students so that they may perform practical experiments every class.
16 students
300
At what age does the brain stop growing?
The human brain continues to grow until about age 18
300
Children who study music tend to have larger _______ and more advanced ______skills than their peers who do not participate in music lessons.
larger vocabularies and more advanced reading skills
300
__________ is often seen as wasting time and sometimes a lack of the ability to focus. But recent research found the opposite is true. __________ has been associated with longer attention span, increased resolve, creativity and even higher IQ. (When your mind wonders off)
Daydreaming
400
Children who construct their own ________ games experience increased cognitive and social growth.
video
400
Elementary school students get ___ minutes of breaks a day in Finnish versus an average of 27 minutes in the US.
75 minutes
400
Finnish children don't start school until they are ______
Seven
400
Children who study a musical instrument are more likely to work better in _________.
teams
400
Which outdoor task improves children’s desire to learn and boosts their confidence?
Gardening
500
Video games help with A) Fast Strategic Thinking & Problem-Solving B) Hand eye coordination C) Memory capacity D) All of the above
D) All of the above
500
Teachers only spend ________ a day in the classroom, and take 2 hours a week for "professional development".
4 hours
500
What age was the oldest person to ever graduate from university?
94
500
secondary students who participated in a music group at school reported the lowest lifetime and current use of _____________.
All substances (tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs).
500
Most Japanese schools don’t have _______. Instead children do the ________ daily as part of a practice rooted in Buddhist traditions that associate ________ with morality
Cleaners Cleaning
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