The Effect of Playing Puzzle on the Elementary Student's Concentration for Learning Achievement: Literature Review

Concentration is important for children to achieve good learning achievement. It is often found that students lack concentration in studying when facing exams. This review is to examine articles that identify effectiveness of puzzle played therapy on increasing concentration of elementary students. Design study: literature review. Articles searches through some database, ScienceDirect, Proquest and Google Scholar using keywords “elementary student, puzzle, concentration”, and found 3087 articles (ScienceDirect: 824, Proquest: 1575, Scholar: 688). Four articles were selected based on inclusion criteria, namely interventions using any media with a puzzle concept and within the research range of 2018-2022. Literature review indicated that nursing interventions playing puzzles can be used as learning tool to stimulate brain and increase concentration, so student learning achievement can be achieved. Playing puzzles can be used as learning tool that has a good effect for brain to improve learning achievement.