How to teach kids math using Lego

Bright plastic blocks entertaining children for over 60 years, and not just accept a useful toy in terms of development. And now, thanks to the school teacher from New York City, Lego can teach children the basics of mathematics.

Lego develops in children fine motor skills, structural and logical and creative thinking, but it is not all that is capable of a popular toy. Alicia Zimmerman, an American teacher, invented to use bricks to clear the number spikes to transmit basic concepts of addition, division into parts, fractions and arithmetic mean.

Parts and whole, addition and subtraction

Circuits Design is very easy to learn, because each of them has an even number of studs of the same size. Children get used to the same shape and the number of thorns, and soon they will not have to be considered in order to understand how many thorns in one piece.

To teach them to divide the whole into parts, you can use special unpretentious table: as thorns in general, but in each part. So the child can quickly learn how to add and subtract.

Fractions and operations with them

With the help of Lego easy enough to explain to the child that is a fraction as they are added and subtracted. One whole, one half, one quarter - the consistent separation of the designer and the ability to count the spikes helps to quickly understand what fractions.

Square of an integer

These operations are also simple enough for an equal number of thorns - all visually perceived much better as the game element, when the child puts himself on the instructions of the constructor, and three-dimensional figures, making the learning process more interesting than studies with pictures.

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Using the construction of towers of Lego, you can easily teach your child to find the arithmetic mean. Children learn to put all the blocks, and then divide them by the total number.

Where to begin?

When you show your child a bright designer, the first time it will poryvatsya just build towers or some figures. It is not necessary to let him - let him explore a new toy and get used to it. You can also interfere with the gameplay with the basics of mathematics: the fun will take a class, the more likely the child will learn and more able to assimilate.