Yes, they sure do, but there is a snag.

Some games and puzzles don’t help as much as most people believe.

And here is why.

Intellectual games and logic puzzles can be great at helping your child’s cognitive brain development: they improve imagination, intelligence, memory, reasoning, decision-making – you name it!

But when it comes to maths learning, not all games and puzzles are really helpful!

Why?

Because strong logic, reasoning and memory and so on will not necessarily develop the correct maths understanding as well.

Only fixing maths brain-twisters does!

And far from all games and puzzles directly help to fix them.

In other words, if we adults wish to play an intellectual game or solve a logic puzzle with a kid – go ahead and enjoy your family time!

But if you think playing a game or solving a puzzle will help your child’s maths at school, it’s true only if you follow the following guidelines:

1️⃣ Use a game or a puzzle that helps fix a particular maths brain-twister.
2️⃣ Tell your child that the game or puzzle is for learning as well as for fun.
3️⃣ Help your child to see what maths point the game or puzzle is addressing.
4️⃣ Explain the maths point to your child so they understand it, otherwise the game or puzzle won’t feel as fun for them!
5️⃣ And yes. While working on your child’s maths thinking, don’t forget to have fun playing the game and solving the puzzle!

🟪 Over the years, I collated many puzzles and games that can help a child to fix particular brain-twisters so their understanding of a particular maths topic is improved. Many of them  are specifically based on up-to-date educational psychology.

Some of these games and puzzles are more fun than others, but they all do their job!

And yes.
Kids enjoy them ☺️

Interested?

Contact me with a word “FUN” and I shall come back to you with some ideas of games and puzzles that you can enjoy together with your child – while fixing a few maths brain-twisters along the way!

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🟪 The correct maths teaching is the only way to help your child understand maths properly.
🟪 Once they grow to understand maths, they grow to enjoy learning it and start to see how to use maths – independently.

📢 I share tips and ideas about maths teaching methods that work for most children. Follow me #MorrishMaths on social media to learn more.