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Hello friends, I have been doing a lot of maths and reading comprehension worksheets lately but haven't done any brain-boosting activities for a long time. Hence, I thought that I should make some worksheets that have no reading or writing in them but pure fun. When it comes to brain-boosting activities that are also quite fun, mazes are the first thing that comes to my mind.  🧠 💡 🧠 💡 🧠 💡 🧠 💡 Why is maze solving a brain-boosting activity? Why is maze solving a brain-boosting activity? 🟢 Mazes improve the cognitive skills of children. 🟢 When a maze puzzle is placed in front of children, it boosts their brain by making them think, reason, and remember. 🟢 They have to first understand the puzzle, work out a way ✏️ while remembering the dead ends. It makes them focus 👀 and sharpens their memory; Mazes are amazing for stimulating the brains inside the little heads of our children. 🟢 In today's world, children are too much dependent on screens and it is dulling their...

This is part 3 of my Mental Math worksheets: If you are a regular visitor of my website, you might know that I have developed a Mental Math mobile app . It is available on both Google Play Store and iOS App Store and it is 100% Free. I also publish video tutorials on the concepts and tricks taught in this app. Now, this app provides unlimited practice and you can practice even with a timer so you can easily become faster at mental math but I do know that some people like practicing on paper so this is why I started making these Mental Math worksheets. These worksheets correspond to Class #5 of my Mental Math series on my YouTube Channel. However, I have tried to make these worksheets independent of the tutorials by giving quite a lot of detail about the mental math tricks in them. I hope you like this effort. Have a look at my mental math app too where it all started 😀.  The worksheets have a lot of questions for practice. I have explained two tricks to solve two-digit number a...

Hello friends, I am back with another set of worksheets for practicing math for preschool-aged children. This time the theme is the glorious season of Spring. I am sure that your children or students will enjoy doing these vibrantly colorful worksheets.  Let me tell you about the idea behind these worksheets. Once the children have learned number recognition from 1-10, they need to continue practicing counting and they also need to associate the number symbols with actual quantity. These worksheets will help them in practicing their counting. Moreover, they also need to know the order of the numbers i.e. what comes before, after, or between two numbers so that will be taught too in these worksheets. Once they have mastered this, they have to move onto greater than and less than concepts. The concept is being taught by a very hungry alligator 🐊  that loves eating more snacks and bigger numbers.  I have tried to make these worksheets quite exciting for little, curious min...

Besides Computer Programming/Coding, the subject of Mathematics has been very close to my heart. A strong foundation of math is essential in almost all fields of study. Besides having a clear knowledge of math concepts, another aspect of mathematics that is usually ignored is doing math in your brain.  We often see videos of people doing math sums lightning fast in their brains. They are nicknamed human calculators and people are just awed by their intelligence. I believe that most of these people have trained their brains to answer math questions. They use tricks and techniques to answer questions super-fast. This requires patience and training. A person cannot become excellent in something from the very first day. Yes, I know that there are true prodigies in this world. but what I am trying to explain is that doing math in your brain is not Rocket Science!  It shouldn't be considered impossible to achieve if we start training our brains now. Moreover, when children are youn...

3-4 years old children are vocal and curious about the world around them. They can recognize colors and notice differences in the shapes of different objects. It is the best time to further sharpen their brain development by giving them challenging worksheets and working on developing their critical thinking. This is Part 4 of my Preschool worksheets for teaching such critical thinking to children. It focuses on patterns of shapes and pictures. These worksheets are meant to sharpen children's critical thinking by making them think in patterns. They have to complete patterns, match similar pictures, and find odd pictures out.  It is very easy to use these worksheets. Print them out on an A4 size paper and give them to your child with a crayon or a pencil. These worksheets can also be done verbally by speaking if the child doesn't have a good pencil/crayon grip. I recommend that you first start with the previous parts of the Preschool worksheets as all of these worksheets are ...

This is the third edition of my preschool worksheets that teach critical skills needed for brain development. They are essential for logical thinking so I call these worksheets logic games   😉 These worksheets introduce essential maths concepts such as weight, volume, size, height, length, and quantity in such a way that can be easily grasped by a 3.5-5 yrs old child. If your child doesn't have a pencil grip yet, no worries: do it with a thick crayon. If they are not ready for crayons, don't pressurize; do these worksheets verbally. These worksheets are colorful and fun so I am hoping that the children will be quite cooperative doing them 😉.  Also, you can download my  Countville App  for your children for very entertaining number recognition and counting practice.   Download PDF Part 1 Preschool worksheets Part 2 Preschool worksheets Please like my Facebook page and Instagram page for more educational resources and tips. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/O...

Hello friends, Let's talk about learning for preschoolers: Structured learning is not important for children less than 3 years of age. It is the time to just play with colorful blocks or other toys that stimulate the imagination . This playing time will teach the children many things: colors, size, balance, shapes, and much, much more. Some cute coloring pages with crayons will lay the foundation for their future pencil grip 😊. However, you should contribute to this learning process by playing with them and asking questions. Children are naturally curious and most of the time, they will be the ones asking questions but you should also query them about colors and shapes. Once the children can hold a crayon, give them some beginning-level worksheets such as matching worksheets that I published some time ago for developing their analytical and logical thinking. You can have a look at them here . Now, the most important thing is that don't force your children to do any works...

Hello friends, Besides tracing and developing a correct grip for writing, another important skill that preschoolers need to develop is analytical thinking. They need to be able to recognize different shapes and associate them with similar shapes. They should be able to match similarly colored things. This is the basis of analytical thinking and is an essential precursor to solving logic puzzles and even coding/ programming. I have compiled these 10 worksheets that will surely fascinate your children and keep them busy while also building their analytical thinking. This is part 1 of my logic games series. It has beginning-level matching games and can be done easily by 2.5 yrs to 3-year-old children. As computer programming and analytical thinking are very close to my heart, I plan to make more interesting worksheets that will slowly and steadily advance and will teach important skills such as patterns, counting, the concept of positions, etc. that will open up and sharpen the childre...