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[quote=Anonymous]Kids should practice using their memory every day on anything they are interested in (interest helps focus the brain): math facts, poems, names of Thomas the Tank Engine trains, songs, period table, taxonomy of animals or plants, grocery lists, phone numbers, stats of baseball players.

A mix of poetic (poems, songs, bible verses, Shakespearean soliloquies), visual (country flags, state license plates, nautical flags, code symbols, puzzles, pattern games, quilting, matching and blind memory games), and linear lists (numbers, items, geographic names, list of presidents, football team rosters) is best, as they are different types of memory. The lists help the brain learn to organize less logical data into logical chunks -- for that having kids figure out their own best way to memorize the digits of Pi is a great exercise, not because anyone needs to know the digits of Pi, but because of the neurons that are built when the kid figures out a system for memorizing a long string of seemingly random digits. There are a log of great games that help kids build memory skills, some of which you probably play without realizing that you are training your kid's brain.[/quote]

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