Why Puzzles
We hear a lot these days about enhancing brain
performance. Other than right-brain training, left-brain training or even
whole-brain training, many neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have also
talked about the importance of puzzles as brain enhancers. Puzzle activities
not only engage the whole brain but distinct brain areas and processes.
Furthermore, solving puzzles is a fun way to stimulate the brain areas which
are important sites for IQ, memory, and other cognitive functions.
The fun and challenging puzzles at Guru Kids
Pro enhance mental functions such as concentration, memory, visual observation,
logic, numbers, vocabulary, visual-spatial thinking, imagination, and
creativity. Each puzzle has been delicately designed to engage, stimulate,
challenge, and sharpen your children’s brain areas responsible for each
mental/cognitive function.
But
teachers resist puzzles
If our brains benefit from so many different
types of puzzles, then puzzles should be part of the curriculum. Introducing
puzzles into schools is a good idea, but simply giving puzzles to teachers does
not work well in practice.
A few teachers who already understood the
value of puzzles enthusiastically jumped on board. But most teachers resisted.
And for good reason: Puzzles do not fit the standard curriculum.
Teachers are under tremendous pressure to
cover mandated topics within tightly constrained time periods. Teachers don’t
have time for puzzles. And even if they had the time, teachers are not trained
to know what to do with puzzles in their classrooms.
So
let’s bypass schools
At Guru Kids Pro, we have not given up on
using puzzles in education. To get puzzles into education, we need to take a
different approach. We take puzzles directly to your children in the form of
entertainment, as well as engaging and challenging their mental functions.
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