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You can count on educational maths games helping kids have a fun learning experienceA new book called Bounce: The Myth of Talent and The Power of Practice suggests that a child’s effort is more important than their talent when it comes to becoming good at a subject like Maths. Author Matthew Syed points to an American experiment where 200 pupils were praised for the effort they made during a task and 200 pupils were praised for the intelligence they showed during the task.The pupils praised for their effort were more likely to accept the challenge of taking on a harder task than the pupils praised for their intelligence (who were found to be worried about losing their smart status).So it seems that phrases such as “Wow, you must be hard working!” are more important than “Wow, you must be smart”.The book also suggests that when children seem to have a particular gift it is often because they have been given extra tuition at home.These theories support the idea that buying educational games for children is a sound investment!Luckily, Yellow Moon has all the educational games you need to help kids enjoy their early experiences of maths.The Minute Maths Electronic Flash Card is a game which makes learning fun and is suitable for kids aged 7-10. Children just need to watch the screen and try to work out addition, subtraction, multiplication and division sums. Can they solve the equation before the timer goes off?

Children will always want to make time for the Hickory Dickory Dock Time Game. This game is all about mice running up a clock and helping kids aged over 5 to learn to tell the time. Matching the time cards with pictures of the clock means you advance but if it’s one o’clock everyone goes back a space.The Clever Detective Maths Game should also be a ‘most wanted’ item on any educational games shopping list. Working out sums helps children compile a wanted poster which helps them solve the identity of a mystery villain. There is nothing defective about this detective game!The Magic Cauldron Maths Game is a spell-binding way of getting kids to have fun with numbers. Children firstly have to guess the solutions to sums, and then they find out whether they are right by rubbing the heat-sensitive patches on the cards. If they are correct they get to fill their cauldrons with weird and wonderful ingredients. It’s a game that two players or more can enjoy.

Older children (aged over 7) will love snapping into action with Times Table Snap. They can either calculate the maths to play ‘Snap’ with the cards or match the sums playing ‘Pairs’. This game is great for kids to play on long car journeys too.Bus Stop Maths Game can also put kids on the fast-track to having fun with maths. Racing around the board counting passengers on and off your big double-decker is great for honing kids’ addition and subtraction skills.A Counting Fun Fruit Bowl is fantastic for children aged over 3. Pop-apart strawberries, bananas, apples, plums and oranges can be counted and sorted by young fingers.A fun way of getting kids to have an appetite for numbers!