An Experimental Study On The Ability Of Amateur Table Tennis Training To Improve The Attention Ability Of School - Aged Children

Attention, an orientation activity, a direction and concentration of something, is the necessary element for all kinds of children’s exercises. Things cannot be recognized without attention. Based on the characteristics of school-age children’s brain and intellectual development and the important effect of the concentration ability and influence, we can draw a conclusion that development of school-age children’s concentration ability not only influence the development of the intelligence quality, will also directly affect future life, study and many other various aspects ability, and even decide the development direction of their life.The purpose of this research is to find out if the amateur table tennis training can significantly improve the school-age children’s ability of concentration. I conducted an experiment through amateurishly training some school-age children (from grade two to grade five) for8weeks, and testing their ability of concentration.This research mainly focuses on the changes of the ability of concentration by comparing the school-age children before and after8weeks of amateur table tennis training, which is call experiment method.The experimental research object in this paper is the students from Henan Luohe city Luohe primary school. Firstly, I confirmed the people quantity is more than40, and then randomly selected one class from each grade of the four grades, grade one, grade two, grade three, and grade four. Secondly, randomly selected40students and divide them into two groups, one contains10people to be the experimental group, and the other contains the balanced30people to be the control group. To sum up, total object people quantity is160, which includes40experimental group people and120control group people.The consequence of this experiment is that the8weeks amateur table tennis training can significantly improve the school-age children’s ability of concentration in the experimental group, while the children in the control group shows no significant difference of concentration during the two concentrate test.Conclusion:amateur table tennis training can significantly improve the school-age children’s ability of concentration. What’s more, because table tennis has many benefits and has a good mass base in China, we should popularize it in school-age children’s daily life.