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The community schools offer mutual collaboration with local volunteering organizations. By that, all sides involved benefit from the collaboration – the community supports their local school and the school embraces the surrounding community. The community schools project was initiated in 2007 by Kelly Lamrock, the Minister of Education in the New Brunswick cabinet.
Backgammon and bridge are some of the educational tools used by volunteers in the community schools project. Other tools include hula hoops, yoga and art classes. Playing baggamon with a student with behavioral problems and mathematics difficulties is a personal mission of David Wheaton, a former school principal who is now a co-coordinator for three community schools, who states that their backgammon games improved their communication.
Marilyn MacDiarmid is a volunteer in a local community school, whose duty includes teaching a class of four-graders to play bridge during the math class. According to David Cogswell, their traditional math teacher, playing bridge also benefits the children's strategic thinking and their social skills. However, only top students can take part in the bridge activity, since because the card game requires some level of abstract thinking, while the others play other math-related games.
Backgammon Teaches Math and Life Skills
Community schools in south east New Brunswick, Canada are using games such as backgammon and bridge to improve students achievements in math classes as well as to teach them important life skills. By playing games, the young students are learning without even realizing it, said a teacher in one of the 51 community schools operated in the area.The community schools offer mutual collaboration with local volunteering organizations. By that, all sides involved benefit from the collaboration – the community supports their local school and the school embraces the surrounding community. The community schools project was initiated in 2007 by Kelly Lamrock, the Minister of Education in the New Brunswick cabinet.
Backgammon and bridge are some of the educational tools used by volunteers in the community schools project. Other tools include hula hoops, yoga and art classes. Playing baggamon with a student with behavioral problems and mathematics difficulties is a personal mission of David Wheaton, a former school principal who is now a co-coordinator for three community schools, who states that their backgammon games improved their communication.
Marilyn MacDiarmid is a volunteer in a local community school, whose duty includes teaching a class of four-graders to play bridge during the math class. According to David Cogswell, their traditional math teacher, playing bridge also benefits the children's strategic thinking and their social skills. However, only top students can take part in the bridge activity, since because the card game requires some level of abstract thinking, while the others play other math-related games.
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