Pivotol helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Organization

Arranging and coordinating materials in order to complete a task.

In order to play this game, the player must use their organizational skills. If they aren’t thinking about how to organize the blocks into groups of six or more, they literally cannot get anywhere in the game. Beyond that, they also need to be able to organize the idea of how to pivot and rotate the blocks to get them where they want them. Without these skills, the blocks will stack up and the game will be over.

Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

While it may be easy to find six or more pink blocks on the game board, the player has to also be able to see how to move them according to pivots and rotation. This means that they have to make use of their planning skills. They need to look at each of the different colors of blocks and solve the problem of which is the easiest to group together and which pivots are the best way to do it. If they don’t take the time to do some short-term planning (a move or two ahead at least), then they could end up breaking up groups instead of making bigger ones.