الأشكال الهندسية في تصاميم لعب الأطفال و علاقتها ببعض المهارات المعرفية لدى أطفال الرياض

الملخص EN

The research aims to: First: Identify to the skill level of kindergartners to organize information, the research sample (Male and Female).

Second: Identify to the differences in the average responses of kindergarteners to the skill test of organizing information according to gender (Male-Female).

Third: Revealing the relationship between the design of children’s toys according to geometric shapes and the skills to organize information in kindergarteners (Male-Female).

The research Sample has included (150) children divided into (75) Males and (75) Females with an average age group of (5 – 6) years old and those enrolled in government kindergartens in the city of Baghdad (First Rusafa, Second Rusafa, and Third Rusafa).

The researcher adopted the information organization skill test (Valid, 2019) and prepared a geometric shapes test for designing children’s toys; after processing the results of the research statistically, the researcher reached the following results: First Goal: The calculated t-value reached (5.84) and the tabular t-value reached (1.96), meaning that the calculated value is higher than the tabular value, and thus the result is that the difference is statistically significant at degrees of freedom of (149) degree, with a significance level of (0.05).

Accordingly, the result of this goal proves that kindergarten children have prior experience with cognitive skills, including the skill of organizing information, which is one of the essential tools for practical thinking for kindergarteners.

Second Goal: The calculated t-value reached (0.572), and when compared with the tabular value (1.96) at the significance level (0.05), the calculated t-value appeared smaller than the tabular value, meaning that there are no statistically significant differences between (Males and Females).

Accordingly, the result of this goal proves that the kindergarten child, according to Piaget’s point of view, is in the pre-operational stage (The Sensory Phase 2-6 years), whether male or female, they are equal in the quantity and type of concepts in this age stage.

They can organize, arrange and compare information through their interaction with the environment in which they live.

Third Goal: The correlation coefficient between designing children’s toys according to geometric shapes and the degrees of skill in organizing information was (0.94), and using the t-test for two interconnected samples, the calculated t-value reached (5.67), which is greater than the tabular value of (1.96) at the level of (0.05).

This indicates that the correlation is a real connection between the two variables, the more geometric shapes are used in the design of children’s toys, the greater the ability of the kindergarten child to understand the skills of organizing information; this prompts the child to put the information he obtains in an orderly format that allows him to categorize and arrange it according to the geometric shape of which the game is made up, and compare between them.

Then the researcher interpreted and discussed the results in the light of the theoretical framework and previous studies related to the variables of the current research.

The researcher developed some recommendations and proposals to benefit from them in conducting similar research and future studies.