How Practicing Math Benefits Your Brain

Continuing to challenge yourself is one of the best ways to use your brain. Math will help you maintain mental fitness because it takes concentration and focus.
 

Benefits of Doing Math
One way to continually challenge your brain is by continuing to do mathematics throughout your adulthood. Practicing just simple math every day has many benefits for brain health. Think of math as weight-training for the brain: math improves your visualization, organizational, memory, and problem-solving skills. This can lead to better recollection, faster reaction, and a sharper mind.
 

You don’t need to go out and buy a math book to practice math. There are lots of ways you can incorporate math into your daily routine.
 

Ways You Can Do Math Every Day:

• Count change or pay in change. When you pay in change, you have to do math quickly as you count out dollar bills and coins.
• Do daily calculations in your head instead of using a calculator
• Do word problems, logic puzzles or thinking games
• Gardening, music, art, dancing, cooking, building and taking things apart all use math