Role of logical games in mathematics education

Abstract

General problem in mathematics education is the lack or absent of motivation. This is acutely valid for secondary school age: most of the students alienate from mathematics, think it is too difficult, dry, boring. Methodological researches prove, that the attitude to-wards a subject has significant influence on the effectiveness of learning. As George Polya said: „A teacher of mathematics has to be a good salesman to be able to sell his merchan-dise to the buyer." Logical games are often based upon a mathematical structure. They can develop skills and abilities that are important parts of mathematical thinking and mathematical compe-tences. If we take advantage of them, and find the relevant game to a field of mathematics, we can use it on mathematics lessons. In my paper I részletez, kifejt some examples from my lecture how we can use logical games at concrete fields of mathematics. Beyond the possibility of motivation through playing I will show the skills and abilities we can develop, and furthermore, we can de-velop problemsolving skills and mathematical model-making.