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Following Armenia’s PISA results, can chess help improve students’ mathematics outcomes? In response to this question, Smbat Lputian, Vice President of the Chess Federation of Armenia and an International Grandmaster, said: “If we can train teachers better and have more qualified teachers, this will have a very significant impact on the development of children’s educational and mathematical knowledge. I am confident about that.”
According to Lputian, the educational impact of chess extends to the development of a wide range of skills. In his view, to make this impact more effective, the education sector and society need to pay greater attention to the development of chess.
Speaking about the preparation of chess teachers in schools, Lputian noted that there are many good teachers with different levels of expertise, but individual successful examples are not enough.
“If we had approximately 60 percent good teachers, the impact of their work on society and the education system would be much greater, because quality needs to be systemic,” he said.
Lputian said this requires coordinated work involving not only chess organisations, but also the government, universities and other members of the education community.
“We all need to recognise and understand how important a good teacher is — both for chess and for all areas of education,” he stressed.
