- Counting and number recognition when selecting and sorting Lego bricks
- Understanding of size and measurement when deciding the height and width of the tower
- Patterning and sequencing when constructing the tower with different colors and shapes of Lego bricks
- Spatial awareness and geometry when connecting and stacking the bricks to form the tower
To further develop math skills through building with Lego bricks, you could:
- Encourage the child to explore different shapes and sizes of Lego bricks and create structures with specific geometric properties (e.g., building a rectangular prism or a pyramid)
- Introduce more complex patterns and challenge the child to continue them or create their own
- Have the child calculate the total number of bricks used in their tower by grouping and counting the different colors and shapes
- Use the Lego tower as a base to practice basic addition and subtraction, by adding or removing bricks and determining the new total
- Invite the child to design their own Lego building plans, using graph paper to create scaled drawings and calculate the number of bricks needed