Learn through video games!

     My latest quest required me to play video games! As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, video games can be an excellent way to teach our children a variety of skills. I decided to take the Wii math challenge, and played a game of ten pin bowling with my husband and our oldest son. The object of the game was to give an estimate, or an amount of what the score was going to be after we hit a certain number of pins. So not only were we doing math in our heads (rather quickly!), we were also estimating and looking at probability. It was a super fun and excellent way to sharpen our basic math skills! So next time your kids want to play a game of ten pin, let them! Instead of discouraging their game play, stimulate their learning by promoting a little math fun in the process.