Summary of “Maybe teach them Math, Science and Chess”
By James Warren
Summary
According to James Warren’s article “Maybe teach them Math, Science and Chess” in the New York Times Saturday Review (October 15, 2011), Susan Polar, who was a Hungarian prodigy chess while she was young girl, agrees that Chess should become part of the curriculum for second grade at school because Chess game help children have more skills such as discipline, analytical thinking, time management, focus and patience that is useful throughout life. Also, chess game helps children be more confident. People usually think that girl cannot play chess because they are not intelligent like boy. However, Susan didn’t think that way because she thinks playing chess is not depend on gender or country where you are from, she just believe the hard working and everyone can play it. Therefore, Ms. Susan created the foundation supports chess for boys and girls (especially girls),and sponsors events nationwide, which called Susan Polar Foundation, and everyone can join it. It's great organization of education for student in America.
Response
I think this article is really true. Playing chess help children improve their skill and apply that through their life. It’s really cool if chess game becomes a subject at school because every student could compete equally. Divide gender at school is really wrong thing because boys or girls are equal. For my experiment, I used to play chess with my father when I was 8 years old. After several month playing chess game, my Math score improved because when I was playing, my brain had to work so hard to think which step I should play first to win and it created critical thinking to help me be good at Math. Also, I think chess game will train children’s brain to be more intelligent and active.
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