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Flash Cards Make Learning Fun

Flash cards are an ideal way to teach young students numbers, letters and words, however, you can also provide your teachers with tools to enhance reading, multiplication and division for older students. Keep learning at the forefront by equipping your school or office play area with learning resources that are fun, colorful and creative.

Launch Interactive Games in the Classroom

Equip your teachers and support staff with flash cards that can be used to break up lessons with innovative activities. Encourage your students to get physically and mentally active with a game of musical chairs using flash cards. Your teachers can play an upbeat song, and when the music starts, the student without a chair has to solve a math problem or read a sight word from the drawn card to rejoin the game. Tutors and support staff can also use flash cards to play hide and seek with students. All they have to do is hide flash cards with letters throughout the room and ask students to find the letters and create words. With flash cards, your teachers and staff have the tools to promote learning and smiles throughout the school day.

Enhance Your Play Areas

Create a play area in your waiting room or office lobby that promotes learning. Decorate the walls with flash cards, math problems or reading prompts, or leave cards on the tables of the waiting room so that parents and students can actively engage with each other while learning something new. You can also encourage learning in a medical office while children are waiting for a physician or dentist to arrive in the room. Calm a nervous little one with flash cards that have her favorite cartoon character or a silly illustration accompanied by an addition or subtraction problem. Flash cards are also helpful tools for therapists and counselors. Prompt students to recognize images printed on the cards, and ask them to reflect on the images or tell stories about what they see on the flash cards. This tactic is helpful in detecting how young patients feel about certain subjects or experiences.

Improve Memory Skills

Purchase flash cards to use in your school's after-school program or at a daycare to help improve memory skills. Tutors and staff members can play a game of memory in which students have to answer a problem correctly from a flash card before flipping over cards to match. Integrate flash cards into board games, such as one in which students are quizzed before rolling dice or making another move in checkers. Your teachers and staff can also use flash cards to review concepts that students have learned during private tutoring sessions or when a rainy day forces recess indoors. Many students struggle with remembering concepts, which is why when you supply your teachers and tutors with flash cards, they have the tools to reinforce concepts.