surprised! Reveal the secret weapon of the old mother of the "genius class"!
Don’t panic, this is the title that the team members gave me advice, I gave it a pass, it’s too exaggerated and not my style~8 passed, I think it might be good to put it at the beginning, it’s very to the point~Yes, today I am talking to you all Talk about this!
has been staying at home during the summer vacation, and seeing that the fall semester will continue to start online, my classmates have nothing to do, so they opened a video account. Looking at the smooth-talking Escape in the camera, I was shocked to realize that this boy was already a 6th grade boy. I think back to when I brought him to the United States to study, he was still a 5-year-old kid who couldn't understand English. I helped him make up for it every day, and finally he was qualified to go to elementary school.
1-year-old kid Tongtuo compares the lists in the supermarket to buy back-to-school supplies.
Many mothers left messages after watching the video and asked about Tongtuo’s growth experience. Today, let’s talk about his first “small achievement” after entering elementary school. "Let's talk about it.
remembers that not long after he entered an American elementary school, one day he found an email from the school in the folder he brought home, asking if we should let our child participate in the selection of the Gifted and Talented Program?
Gifted and Talented Program "Gifted Program" is a tiered education project in the American public school system. Through testing, some children with relatively high levels of intellectual development are selected (about 3%), and additional "small focus" is provided to supplement or improve some content that is relatively less focused and shallow in class. This can be regarded as "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude." A manifestation.
As a Chinese parent who has been through all kinds of tests, I was very excited when I heard about the selection and signed up for Tudu without even thinking about it. Of course, I don’t dare to hold on to hope. After all, Fengfeng’s English was not very good at that time, and it would be difficult to figure out the questions, but the important thing is to participate. No matter what, let’s find out the feeling first. It is precisely because of this mentality that we did not prepare for the exam.
Not long after the results, I received a notice from the school that I had skipped the exam and got in. I was really surprised and happy! After some investigation, I found out that this test is actually similar to the test questions for early childhood entrance examinations in our country, including early training, early training, and lottery. The question types are nothing more than logic , reasoning , and mathematics. , observation , memory ...
This is a good explanation why Fengfeng was able to pass the exam in a daze. First of all, because there were mostly graphics and logical reasoning questions, he was not too affected by language; in addition, More importantly, logic , reasoning , mathematics , observation , memory ... are what he practiced the most when he was a child. I learned later that our practice method for
and was exactly the same as the gifted class teacher’s recommendation - play the board game .
(Some of my family’s board games)
A friend once asked several gifted class teachers how to prepare for the selection exam, and the answers they got were very consistent, playing board games . In fact, there are some test preparation materials and question sets for gifted classes on the market, but teachers say that exam questions may allow children to acquire quick test-taking skills in the short term, but the process of playing board games improves children's thinking. Ability and learning ability. Translation: Skills may be useful for a while, but abilities will definitely last a lifetime.. Therefore, in gifted classes, playing board games and using board games to educate and entertain students also account for a large part.
Today, I will take stock of some classic board games that I have played in the gifted class at school over the years, as well as some of the classic board games that I often play at home.
These board games have one thing in common, that is, is not played in vain. Every time you play a set, you have to add points (points) to . Each set of accurately targets a child's shortcomings or covers a learning goal. Of course, it is essential to be very interesting, so that the children can be glued first!
Let’s start with a 10-second keynote version:
If your child is just 4 or 5 years old, you can start immediately. will play the board games mentioned today one by one. When they are in the upper grades of elementary school, play It is not a problem to have a smarter mind than your peers;
If you are also a board game enthusiast, great, you finally met your soul mate! Come and exchange your play experience in the message area
Category 1 [Memory Board Games]
Part.01
Board game name : Pengoloo/Antarctic Little Penguin
Recommended age : 4-99
Main abilities : Memory and concentration
Additional Experience : Exploring thinking and preventing Alzheimer’s disease
Number of people : Multiplayer (2-4 people)
Memory board game Escape played several games when he was a child. I asked him which one he most recommended to children, and this one was his first choice. The reason is that the little penguin is so cute and ranks first in appearance!
Antarctic Little Penguin is a board game that is very popular among teachers in gifted classes in the United States. By the way, extraordinary memory is one of the criteria for screening gifted children! The reason why teachers like it is very straightforward: the game design is very clever, and the rules are simple and easy to use. is very suitable for providing a framework for children aged 4-8 to build a memory method and optimize the memory method.
The gameplay is very simple: place the colored balls, remember their positions very carefully and attentively, and then use the little penguin to cover the colored balls.
Then the player starts to roll the dice and has two chances to open the penguin and guess where the colored eggs that match the color of the rolled stock are hiding. The one who guesses the 6 colors correctly first is the winner~
was particularly impressed because the board game allowed Tuoyou to find a memory method called that was very suitable for him. When
first started playing this board game, escaped by remembering colors through sound. When memorizing, he would keep repeating: red, yellow, green, yellow, blue... But he was most afraid of others talking to him. , the voice in his head became confused as soon as he spoke, he would definitely lose!
and I basically rely on images to remember : convert the Easter eggs into images, and the Easter eggs are like pieces of a puzzle in my mind. To find Easter eggs, search for puzzle pieces in your brain.
escape dad is to sort the memory , number each color in the order from warm to cold, and then form a connection in the mind according to the number from large to small, and then look for the same line as the dice every time Color Easter eggs. This brain circuit sounds convoluted, but the accuracy rate is very high. In fact, it is similar to gestures to unlock the mobile phone screen. . .
's chance of escaping and winning later became more and more likely. It turned out that he was inspired by our exchanges and sharing, and slowly figured out a set of memory methods that suited him. He was also used to quickly adjusting and using different memory methods in different situations. way of remembering. It has to be said that children's brains are really very malleable, and as long as there are good opportunities, they will improve very quickly.
By the way, this board game is especially suitable for the elderly to practice memory while playing with their children. It is very effective in preventing Alzheimer's disease and forgetfulness!
Category 2 [Logic + Single player and multiple players can play
Smart Cookies comes from Foxmind, an Israeli national board game brand. Its previous name was Meta-Forms/Ark of Wisdom, which you may have heard of. I think html children over 15 years old need not attend the Mathematical Olympiad class, but this "smart cookie" is known as the key to unlocking the door to logical reasoning. is unanimously recommended by professors at Harvard and Yale. You must try it! The gameplay of
is to place 9 cookies of different shapes and colors into the correct grid in a 3*3 nine-square grid according to the markings and prompts in the question booklet, and you have completed a level.
There are many clues specified in the game:
Positive clues (must be placed somewhere)
Negative clues (must not be placed somewhere)
Specific clues (color + shape)
Shape clues (x-shaped cookies must be placed in rows)
Color clues (xx colored cookies must be placed in the left column)
has a total of 64 levels, divided into 8 difficulty levels, which are step-by-step and extremely playable. It can be played for a long time, of course, the further you go, the harder it gets...
My biggest feeling is that this set of board games is just a "delicious and cute" guise, which essentially allows children to train the included causal derivation, logical AND or , assuming that the three major logical methods are eliminated, playing as a set will properly build children's "mathematical logic brain", which is crucial to learning mathematics well in the future. Put aside the lofty academic concepts first, and happily gain abilities in the game!
Part.03
Board game name : Rummikub/Israeli Mahjong
Recommended age : 5-99
Main ability : Logical thinking, mathematical ability
Additional experience : Strategy selection
Number of people : 2-4 people (playing mahjong, 4 People are the best~)
Israeli Mahjong is also a traditional Jewish family board game. Escape has been playing it since he was more than 5 years old. I looked up the photos from previous years and saw how cute he was thinking about it at that time. I just lamented the time. It went by too fast. It was also recommended to us by the gifted class teacher. As soon as my home received the goods, it immediately became a mahjong base for my friends...
The third lady on the left, who was watching the game and was so excited that she was dressed in blue, was originally here to call her baby home for dinner...
This mahjong has a total of 106 tiles, including number tiles from 1 to 13 (4 colors, two sets of each color), plus two wild tiles (the "wild tiles" can replace any number of any color ). The rules of
are very simple. Each player starts with 14 cards. According to the following method, the one who runs out of cards first wins~
If you want to play cards as soon as possible, you must find a way to harmonize the groups that have been played on the table. Transformation and splitting of groups require adding cards, removing cards, splitting multiple groups, etc. In fact, it is a process of constantly observing numbers, sorting, classifying, dismantling, and reorganizing numbers .
I found that this set of board games also has several processes from shallow to deep and continuous brain-burning upgrades: starts from wanting to play cards as quickly as possible; later, only one card is played in each round, maximizing the pressure on the opponent. ; Then to analyze the situation of the card pool; to the veteran's hoarding of cards... seems to be similar to our idea of playing mahjong?
The process of playing Rummikub will keep children's brains running at high speed. They are used to the rhythm of quick thinking and quick judgment . After playing for a while, you will find that your child's logical thinking will be greatly improved, and he will be more willing to analyze and reason when encountering problems.
Part.04
Board game name : Secret Code/Brain-burning trick
Recommended age : 6-99
Main ability : Logical thinking, mathematical ability
Additional experience : Hypothesis, elimination, mutual exclusion method
Number of people : Multiplayer (2-3 people)
Brain-burning trick comes from the famous Italian toy brand Quercetti, which is also an old brand for many years. Its specialty is mushroom nails. This time, the mushroom nails are used for logical reasoning~Escape What I tried to avoid playing was the old version. Because it is a "battle" game, it is particularly easy to arouse the desire to compete. The game process is exciting and brain-burning. Addiction is a natural result...
Brain-burning trick. Just two people can start playing. , one person plays the role of "cipher designer", while the other person acts as the "puzzle solver", and the third person can watch the battle, give ideas, and create obstacles. The
password designer should use colored mushroom nails to design a password that cannot be seen by the decryptor. The task of the puzzle solver is to decipher this code. He needs to guess the color and position of each mushroom nail.
Of course, at every step of the puzzle solver, the designer will give hints and feedback:
if the color is correct + the position is correct, give a black mushroom nail;
if the color is correct + the position is incorrect, give a white mushroom nail.
until all colors and positions are guessed correctly. When I first started playing
, in order to reduce the difficulty, I asked Fuyou to be the "password designer" first and let him prompt me for the next step. It turns out that this game is a brain-stimulating process for both parties!
When children act as password designers, they continue to give feedback and their ability to summarize information is slowly improving.
When children serve as decryptors, they not only need to frequently use assumptions, exclusions, and mutually exclusive methods to reason, but also need to summarize many rules of permutations and combinations...
Careful thinking, clear logic, and high Wasn’t the level of mathematical thinking developed during the battle?
The third category [Mathematical thinking board game]
Part.05
Board game name : Prime Climb
Recommended age : 5-12
Main subject : Mathematics (operation)
Number of people : Multi-person (2-4 people)
this This board game was recommended by the math teacher in the escape class. It is more like a super interesting teaching aid than a board game. If your child is short on time, has heavy tasks, and urgently needs to improve his number sense and computing skills, then playing this board game designed by a top mathematician is enough!
Grandpa is the most playful person in our family, and he is still older...
The two most important parts of basic mathematics education - number sense and operations, both need to be carried out in a large number of split and combination exercises, so " The format " makes up " often appears in mathematics board games.
In this digital disk, players have to roll dice, do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and draw skill cards. Whoever reaches the end first will win~
Prime Climb adds a big highlight on this basis - visualization . The abstract splitting and combination exercises are represented by color blocks, so that "making up the numbers" in abstract mathematical symbol operations becomes a "visible and tangible" combination of color blocks, which is very easy for children to understand.
Its unique color block design allows children to "see" the essence of multiplication and division and deeply understand the meaning of the four arithmetic operations. In the game, children can help with operations by merging and removing colors; the single-color circles are prime numbers, and there are as many prime factors as there are blocks in each circle:
Let’s look at the entire multiplication table and carefully observe 6*7=42 , the color composition of the four numbers 6, 7, 42, and 45:
But our family encountered it too late. American children started basic mathematics late, and it was not difficult. They didn’t start playing with it until they were in the third grade. .
Domestic children can use it from preschool.
is because for young children, it can help quickly become familiar with addition and subtraction operations within 100 and the splitting of numbers in the transition stage.
For primary school students, it can help children become very proficient in prime factor decomposition within 100, and help them understand multiplication and division. Later, when they come into contact with number theory in middle and upper grades, they will be particularly useful when they need to answer a lot of mathematical questions related to prime factor decomposition. There are advantages.
Part.06
Board game name: Shape By Shape/Shape by Shape/Shape by Shape/Shape by Shape/Shape by Shape is the classic geometry among the classics Game, from American Thinkfun. Thinkfun is a name that everyone who has played board games should have heard of. It is the world’s number one brand of puzzle-thinking board games. It is good at turning abstract science knowledge into fun. I will mention it later in the review. of.
In the escape class, Shape By Shape is used by the teacher as a teaching aid to teach geometry concepts.
has a total of 60 difficulty levels. It is easy to get started but extremely brain-burning. It guides children to learn the most basic and core concepts in geometry in - the decomposition and combination of graphics. combines abstract geometric concepts with hands-on practice for intuitive learning. , let children play with geometric sensitivity! The gameplay of
is to combine red and yellow color game pieces to form a group solution that is consistent with the challenge card, and you will succeed.
When I first started playing Escape, I was always stumped! But after playing a few more levels, I feel much better. This is because he has a certain understanding of the shape and area of graphics in , and the geometric thinking of dividing and combining graphics has gradually begun to form in , and it is not that difficult. .
Part.07
Board game name : Genius Architect Series
Recommended age : 5-99
Main subject : Mathematics (space geometry)
Number of people : Single player
Foxmind's Genius Architect Series, the process of playing is to let children take on the role "Architects" build and restore three-dimensional geometric cubes, so that can perceive-exercise-master geometry different perspective shapes and spatial perspective knowledge, and systematically and comprehensively build children's geometric spatial thinking .
Therefore, in many kindergartens and primary schools in the United States and Europe, teachers like to use them as effective game teaching aids - specially used to learn geometry and cultivate spatial thinking and geometric thinking.
In my opinion, the Genius Architect series is more like a set of intensive training games from , and more similar to the "question-clearing" gameplay of - there are question books for guidance and exercises. Parents around me think of this design. Reliable and worry-free . (Eh? Mathematics board games seem to have something to do with teaching aids and problem solving...)
allows children to "play" with geometry, which can more intuitively help children strengthen geometric shapes, sizes, decomposition and combination, and transformation of planes and solids ( 2D and 3D changes), and even the understanding of the center of gravity of geometric bodies , are of great help to children in building geometric experience.
In this set of board games, geometry is fun, requires hands-on work, and can be directly perceived. Of course, it can only be achieved through the overall design of mathematicians, high-value question books, and special building blocks.
Part.08
Board game name : Thinkfun Programming Three Musketeers
Recommended age : 7 years old +
Main subject : Programming
Number of people : Single player
Since I am a coder myself, I also choose board games for my children to learn programming. It took a long time to choose. Please note, I said "learning", not playing, because this Thinkfun programming board game combination is more professional than "playing". It is worth recommending to every child who wants to get started with the system and learn programming (Girls’ brains develop faster than boys at a younger age, so the age of girls can be improved a little earlier by using this method).
It was a Christmas gift for this kid when he was 9 years old. He spent most of the Christmas holiday playing this board game~
One of the three musketeers practices modular thinking , one focuses on process control , and the other understands Boolean logic has no threshold for programming basics. In my opinion, it is the most suitable board game to help children use to get started with programming step by step.
Well, this is all the knowledge points it contains ↓
These knowledge points are broken down one by one and integrated into the 40 levels of each game. As the difficulty of the challenge gradually increases, children will also go from entry level to advanced level. Mastering it and then using it skillfully can be described as "scheming"!
Actually, it is quite difficult to get to the later levels. Children often need to think for a long time, simulate and run, and go back and correct errors. Some programming classes can also achieve programs of the same complexity, but I think the advantages of using this board game to practice rather than using a computer are:
● Children can operate by themselves, and can easily control the speed and observe the running results, and the impression is more Deeper and easier to understand.
● does not use your eyes. Most of the time is spent observing, thinking, and doing logical operations in your head.
So whether your children have taken programming classes or not, this set of board games can be played with eyes closed!
Part.09
Board game name : Thinkfun Physics Three Mazes
Recommended age : 5-99
Main subjects : Physics (gravity, circuits, optics)
Number of people : Single player
Physics enlightenment? Thinkfun’s three-maze board game is a game you must not miss! Not only is it very educational, but it also incorporates mechanics, optics, and electrical knowledge respectively. Children's first impression when playing it is that it feels cool , but we adults know in our hearts that we can incidentally feel these physical principles when playing it. Children of this age have super curiosity and relatively ample time. They are exposed to physics knowledge not only for future exams, but also to have more energy to explore and experience.
The three mazes are the parents of the escape genius class. The teacher recommended it for children. During that time, Escape played these three sets of board games almost every day, and it took less than half a year to complete them. When I first got these games and started playing Escape, I was sighing. If there were games like this before I came into contact with physics in middle school, it would be much more interesting to learn. These three games,
, are also logic games that combine with the laws of the real world. Children must constantly debug and choose the best strategy to complete. This is also a good training for children's logical thinking.
Laser Maze is a board game recommended by World Mensa Club. Press the beam emitter (starting point) to turn on the beam. If the beam passes through all the pieces on the board and reaches the end point, you win! There are 60 levels in total. During the hands-on playing process, gradually becomes familiar with concepts such as incident angle, reflection angle, and refraction angle .
Gravity Maze, using a 4*4 grid slot base and nine jelly-colored maze columns of different lengths, provides 60 challenges of different difficulty. According to the requirements of the question card, children must build a three-dimensional maze with maze columns of different heights and combine them into an ideal track. Finally, the steel ball can smoothly roll from the starting point to the end point and fall into the red target column. The process of continuous debugging also allows children to actively come into contact with free fall, gravity and motion inertia in physics, as well as spatial geometry and logical reasoning in mathematics.
Circuit Maze, get close to physics in advance, understand the principles of electricity use in life, and experience the fun and charm of hands-on circuit design in the safest way, this board game is the best one. The setting of challenge cards allows children to enjoy a little bit of fun from a novice to an "little electrical expert". learns to build simple closed circuits from scratch, to learn to connect in series, parallel and use switches to achieve different circuit effects.
Before compiling this article, we conducted a questionnaire survey among our readers and found that many parents usually play board games with their children and can also feel the benefits that board games bring to their children. However, due to the tight schedule of children, every day There is only so much time left for board games.
Fortunately, now all citizens are recruited from kindergarten to primary school and primary school to junior high school, and the numbers are drawn together, so children are not so anxious about preparing for the exam. In this case, I highly recommend that you use board games to guide your children to learn during the kindergarten-elementary school stage (especially preschool) where children's academic pressure is relatively low.
Their benefits will not be immediately reflected in the improvement of grades, but little by little, layer by layer to deepen children's thinking . Some high-level board games are no easier than Mathematical Olympiads, but because their difficulty increases step by step, children will not feel that the difficulty is too steep or out of reach. Instead, they will play with the energy to break through the levels.
As mentioned by the American gifted class teacher mentioned earlier, is more in line with the fun-loving nature of young children than the short, flat and quick test-taking skills and board games that are easy to bring about by answering questions. In a relaxed and pleasant environment, they can use their hands and brains. , confrontation, and cultivate thinking skills more deeply.
While the summer vacation is not over yet, let’s play a few more board games with your children~ Because ultimately supports children to go further, and what they will use for life is often not scores, but the way of thinking about problems, and the ability to see and solve problems. ability.
