Teach math to your children with LEGO

Oh, the mathematics. Much we have talked about different ways that exist for children to learn to do accounts and do not hate this important subject down the road. Today we tell you another formula that, in addition, may give you an interesting idea for upcoming gifts: math with LEGO.

LEGO is a Danish children's toy company known especially for its flagship product: colored plastic blocks that can connect with each other to create different forms. In principle, it is well known by all the usefulness of these blocks for encourage children's creativity, imagination and psychomotor skills, but now an American teacher has discovered this new use: they are useful for teaching (and learning) mathematics.

Initiative of a teacher

Alycia Zimmerman explains in an article in Scholastic magazine that as a child she did not use these blocks to play, but that she was familiar with them thanks to her brothers. It was when she became an educator when she saw the potential of these blocks to teach math to their studentsand he has done so.

Zimmerman is capable of, with these color blocks, explain to your students concepts as diverse as fractions and whole numbers, squaring a number, performing arithmetic means ... According to his account, he uses LEGOs in his classes to reinforce the key knowledge of mathematics that he explains during the lessons.

The procedure of teaching with LEGO we can see it in these images that she herself has shared in that publication, and where indeed it is seen in a very graphic way how these blocks are used for children to see in 'real life' abstract concepts

Formulas with LEGO

"As a third grade teacher, I spent hours drawing matrices and building matrices with things like grains of rice, raisins, pennies ...", says the teacher in her writing.

This teacher recalls that the internalization of "why and how matrices are formed" is a "cornerstone of the construction of multiplicative thinking among my budding mathematicians". the best way you have found for that children internalize these concepts has been the use of LEGO, an original and tremendously useful idea.