Chess doesn’t make children better at math because it’s chess. It works — when it works — because of three specific cognitive mechanisms, and most school chess programs use none of them deliberately. Here’s what the evidence actually supports, and how I run it in a Brazilian public school with a chessboard, no budget, and thirty minutes a week.
Prof. POED Vanderli
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