Look At The Pros and Cons Of Using Fun Math Games to Make Math More Fun For All Students

Decide for yourself!

The Pros of fun math games:

1. Kids think they are getting out of doing work. The truth is they are doing more work than they would have with worksheets.
2. Motivation to play a game is stronger than doing a pencil and paper assignment.
3. Lets the kids move around, gets rid of the "squigglies."
4. Builds cooperative learning.
5. Creates positive bonds between different students.
6. Multisensory experience. The students see, hear and do as they play games. Add manipulate objects and you have the best hand on learning lesson.

The Cons of  fun math games:

1. Too much importance on winning. One poor loser will ruin it for everyone.
2. The classroom will be too noisy.
3. It takes too long to learn the rules and find the best small groups.
4. Classroom has no way to move things around so kids can get into game groups
5. Teacher does not want to take the time to prepare and print out the games.

The bottom line:

• Once all the games are created and organized...
• Once the basic rules of the games are learned...
• Students can get set up and ready to play in a jiffy. 
• There is nothing  better than multisensory reinforcement activities. 
• You cannot go wrong. These games are perfect resource to use  to make math more fun.

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