{"id":2341,"date":"2025-07-28T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:09:43","slug":"why-play-math-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2025\/07\/28\/why-play-math-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Play Math Games???"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-1024x759.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2344\" style=\"width:294px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-1024x759.png 1024w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-660x489.png 660w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner-600x444.png 600w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/07\/math-games-banner.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Because\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>number sense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>teamwork<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>problem solving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>reasoning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>perseverance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>measurement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>counting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>place value<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>number sense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>patience<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>finding patterns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>computation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>fractions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>decimals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>basic geometry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>number fluency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>basic facts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>following directions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>confidence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because\u2026 number sense teamwork problem solving reasoning perseverance measurement counting place value number sense patience finding patterns computation fractions decimals basic geometry number fluency basic facts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; following directions cooperation confidence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,323,282],"tags":[342,178,341],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-math","category-math-skills","tag-elementary-math","tag-math","tag-math-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}