“Let’s see, which of my blue pieces can I play here? I can’t fit this one because it has four in a row.
In my experience, the best way to get kids thinking spatially during the game is to simply narrate your thoughts out loud as you play. Your child is using those same skills when she tries to jam a puzzle piece in the wrong spot before rotating it and finding its home. If you’ve ever navigated the mall using a map or tried to assemble IKEA furniture from a set of instructions, you’ve used your spatial reasoning skills. In layman’s terms, spatial reasoning is how people make sense of objects, their shapes, and how they relate to each other. Where's the Math?īlokus is a fantastic game to help kids develop their spatial reasoning. Mattel has made a quick gameplay video tutorial that you can check out. Once all players are stuck, everyone adds up the total amount of squares that they were not able to play. Players take turns until they can no longer make a move. The only rule is that each player's pieces must touch another of its pieces at the corner, without overlapping sides. Starting in the corners, each player takes turns placing one of her pieces on the board. Some pieces are composed of only two or three squares, while others have four or five squares. The game is intended for four players, although the two-player version is just as fun.Įach player begins with 21 pieces that look like variations of Tetris blocks.
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