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Increase Your Child’s Math Skills with Board Games
Posted by Jeff on May 16, 2008 1,110 views Comments (View Comments)
I spent some time this evening reading a few of my digital magazine subscriptions on Zinio. I ran across this article in the May 19, 2008 issue of US News & World Report.
The article discusses that playing board games can turn your child into a math whiz. This is especially true with number-based board games such as Chutes and Ladders, dominos, pick up sticks and other math oriented children games.
From my view point I can definitely see this in my son’s knowledge of numbers and counting. Logan is going on 4 years this fall and he loves to count items, find numbers, and is getting close to figuring out some simple addition or subtraction. I repeatedly tell him when he gives me an item, “He buddy you have one block and if you give it to me how many will you have left?” Or “you have one truck and if you take mine, how many trucks will you have?” I can see him think it through, which is so cool! His little mind is moving so fast but he is definitely pondering the question.
“Parents and preschool teachers should know that playing number board games increases young children’s numerical understanding and lays a solid foundation for future learning of mathematics as well,” says Carnegie Mellon Prof. Robert Siegler, coauthor of the study.
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