Learning these skills at an early stage will eventually assist children in drawing skills, handwriting and musical instruments. Through this task, children develop small muscle movements and dexterity in their hands and fingers.
The act of manipulating these controls to conceptualize its individual parts forces visual and spatial reasoning - the same skill which helps with driving a car, operating machinery, using a map and aids in the understanding of the need to sequentially follow step by step directions to achieve a goal.
Any game generally requires a challenge. If the challenge is too difficult, it can lead to frustration. If the challenge is too easy, it can lead to boredom. It is therefore important that the challenge is achievable so a child can experience a sense of victory upon completion of the task. This toy track is designed to use the momentum of the moving vehicle to get it from the start to the finish line. This requires a certain amount of precision with the controls while observing the speed of the car to guide it seamlessly across the board.