| Most kids have difficulty learning the difference | | | | at their table for their break. When I say this kid goes |
| between right and left and to develop a sense of | | | | to the right, she will have to raise her right hand with |
| navigation or spatial skill is one of the important | | | | the blue glove and similarly with the left hand. The kids |
| concepts of math. Kids with well developed spatial | | | | cannot wait for their turn to play this game which is |
| skills are very creative, dramatic, artistic and musical. | | | | one of the many kids math games which we play to |
| There are many fun kids math games developing such | | | | help them to learn the concept of direction. |
| spatial skill which I enjoy playing with the kids at my | | | | Bowling game |
| center but the games described below are some of | | | | You would need a ball and some empty plastic bottles. |
| my favorites. | | | | Line up the bottles in a row like bowling pins and let the |
| Beautiful colors | | | | kid use the ball to hit the bottles from varying |
| You can help your kids differentiate between right and | | | | distances. They must listen carefully to know which |
| left by using colors. Kids usually know the names of | | | | hand they must use to roll the ball and if they use the |
| basic colors like red, blue, green and yellow before | | | | wrong hand their scores will be subtracted. I would |
| they learn direction as colors are something which they | | | | usually play this game as a competition to see which |
| can see and easily associate with things around them. | | | | group can bowl down the most bottles to make it |
| Tie colored ribbon around their wrists, for example, tie | | | | more fun and exciting. This is one of the excellent kids |
| yellow on the right wrist and green on the left. Then | | | | math games which we play at the center as it not only |
| you ask them to raise their right hand, the yellow one | | | | help to develop their coordination and navigation skills |
| or the left hand, the green one. This is one of the | | | | but also on their counting and arithmetic skills such as |
| many simple and fun kids math games which will help | | | | addition and subtraction as I would involve the kids on |
| them to connect or associate the color with the | | | | how to keep a scorecard by learning to count the |
| correct direction. | | | | number of bottles which fell, adding or subtracting the |
| Playing traffic policeman | | | | scores to decide which group is the winner. |
| Kids have boundless energy and they never seem to | | | | Kids gain a great sense of accomplishment when they |
| be able to sit still. I would usually play this game during | | | | learn to do things with their hands and playing these |
| their break time where I will have one kid pretending to | | | | kids math games helps them to refine their motor skills |
| be a traffic policeman. She will wear a blue glove on | | | | at they involve the small muscle movements of their |
| the right hand and a red glove on the left hand. She will | | | | hands and fingers in coordination with their eyes and |
| be directing traffic as to where each kid will be sitting | | | | also require dexterity, precision and manipulative skills. |