Free Problem-Solving and Planning Games for Kids

What children learn in problem-solving

Practical reasoning puts school math and reading to work in everyday life. Younger children read a simple schedule, count coins, tell time and plan the order of jobs. Grades 3–5 plan an event within a budget, read timetables and choose the best of several options, and middle school students juggle several rules at once, read charts critically and spot misleading data. Making a plan, testing it and changing it when something doesn't fit is the habit behind good decisions.

PlayOwl has 6 problem-solving games for Preschool to Grade 8, from Timetable Terminal (Grades 2–8) to Festival Planner (Grades 3–8). There are 5 grade pages of problem-solving games, such as 6th Grade Problem-Solving Games. Life Skills Town lets children practice shopping lists, recipes, timetables and pretend budgets in a small 3D town, and Adventure Missions are stories with a job to do: share the picnic, plan the route, build the bridge.