Advantages
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Deductive Reasoning
Video games offer many solutions and gamers must find the correct combinations to optimize their powers to defeat the game. These games are similar to science projects as the player needs to create a hypothesis, test it then try again until the combination is optimal.
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Develop Reading Skills
As video games are fun and exciting for kids, they will force themselves to read to comprehend how a game is played, follow story lines and various informations.
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Multitasking
In most video games, not only does the player need to multitask to accomplish all sorts of tasks but they must also revise their strategy if an unexpected enemy arrives or the game suddenly changes the way it works to make the player react as fast as possible.
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Pattern Recognition
One of the most common internal logics of gaming is pattern recognition. In a game the player will often face all sorts of challenges and as different as they may be throughout the game, a player will figure it out by recognizing patterns.
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Perseverance
Kids will most likely fail the first few times. Upon failure, video games encourage the player to try again by using fun graphics and exciting colors.
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Problem Solving
Give your kids a brain workout. In most video games, winning involves many skills not taught at school.
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Quick Analysis
Making fast decisions occurs almost every second in a game. Research show game-playing kids perform 10 to 20 percent higher on school tests than non-game players.
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Strategy and Anticipation
Video games offer a wide range of challenges where gamers must deal with immediate problems. That being said while these problems have to be dealt with as soon as possible they need to keep their overall goal in mind.
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Teamwork and Cooperation
As technology advances more and more games are played online or through social networks which makes them very interesting for learning how to work in teams. Players now have the option to PvP (player versus player) but they can also create teams to PvE (player versus environment.)