Exercise you brain

I've enjoyed playing chess since being introduced to the game in my teens. I play two or three games most days against the computer. Still just a average player and loose more often than win. I like cranking the difficulty up to be challenged and get better. Nothing against math, it's great to exercise your brain, just prefer chess.
 
Thank you for the link. I used to love what was available on the Khan academy app but then it seemed they wanted people to pay. I will try the brain exercises. I also been adding numbers in my head for the past several months...not all numbers and not all the time. My granddaughter is a math wizard. I'll update later after I take the time to do the Khan thing.
 
suds00 said:
i can do the math but some of the directions' about where the answers go are confusing or maybe it's just me.
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Absolutely you are right. Figuring out what is wanted is half the challenge. I find I have to learn the technology and have to work at figuring out how to make the system work. I feel so sorry for children who face that challenge with adults who think they are just being lazy if they don't jump through all the hoops. It sure is not as simple as the paper and pencil math we did in school when the dinosaurs walked the earth. :LOL: But perhaps it will keep us young to learn how to do things as children must learn to do them today.
 
Maywalk said:
I prefer Scrabble, much more relaxing and it helps to keep my headlights glowing.
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Oh yes, I love scrabble! I have a couple of Scrabble computer games and I hate them because they give me terrible letter selections. I much rather play with a friend and then I don't have to win. The fun can be setting up my friend to win without that being obvious. Or one of my clients had advanced Alzheimer's disease and when began he could make 4 letter words but in the end, he was making 2 letter words. Then my challenge was giving him good places for him to make 2 letter words. There is a lot of pleasure that comes with playing with someone, that we do not get with a computer.
 
oldpeculier said:
I've enjoyed playing chess since being introduced to the game in my teens. I play two or three games most days against the computer. Still just a average player and loose more often than win. I like cranking the difficulty up to be challenged and get better. Nothing against math, it's great to exercise your brain, just prefer chess.
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I learned the basics of chess but never enough to be a good player. That game requires a lot of strategy!

However, I have enjoyed Triominos. That is like Dioninos but with 3 sides.

I also love empire-building games on the computer but they don't demand as much from me as math does. I am trying to discipline my brain for analytical thinking. I think chess does that.
 
I try to keep the little gray cells active by writing. A forum like this is the ideal setting to compose a thought, inscribe it for posterity on the computer screen, and perhaps entertain a small handful of readers with my meager offering. Or if not to entertain, then to provoke a thoughtful rejection through incisive logic that shreds my flawed thesis with the sharp blade of considered reason.

Or a rant that relies on an unflattering comparison to a historical German leader.....
 
jakbird said:
I try to keep the little gray cells active by writing. A forum like this is the ideal setting to compose a thought, inscribe it for posterity on the computer screen, and perhaps entertain a small handful of readers with my meager offering. Or if not to entertain, then to provoke a thoughtful rejection through incisive logic that shreds my flawed thesis with the sharp blade of considered reason.

Or a rant that relies on an unflattering comparison to a historical German leader.....
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Yes, and that is why I have turned to math. I am too dreamy and my thoughts wander all over the place. Some days when I read my own post, I have no idea what meant to say. I want to be a clear thinker, not a babbling idiot.
 
dseag2 said:
Thank you. This was great. I play Wordle once a day and Wordscapes all day but I never do any math exercises. I'll try this.
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My grandmother who was a first through third-grade teacher would say, we teach children math to teach them how to think. Math and diagraming sentences are lessons in logic. I think not only does that improve our reasoning and communication skills, but being logical counteracts being overly emotional.

I remember my grandmother playing many learning games with me.
 
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