About this game

Build it the same way

Build it the same way: a free Kindergarten math game for ages 5-6. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

Building blocks often come with a picture of a tower to copy, and the hard part is not the blocks. Build it the same way is a Kindergarten game about the hard part: where each piece sits. A model made of cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones or rectangular prisms is shown. Your child taps the building, among four, that has the same solids in the same places. The instruction is read aloud, a round has five models, and each answer is checked.

Two skills meet here. One is naming solid shapes. The other is position: on top, left, right, behind, the words the hint lists. Comparing two buildings piece by piece is careful looking, a habit geometry relies on.

Look out for the building with all the right solids and one of them moved, a cylinder behind on the model but on the right in the choice. Ask your child to point to one piece on the model, then find it on the building: "Is it in the same spot?" Praise the method: "You checked every piece and its place."

Aligned with

  • K.G.A.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

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