Profile of Character and Mathematic Concept on Children Game

Abstract

Game for an early childhood is an activity to improve some capabilities that contains the value of education, especially the education of mathematics. Games are often used in early childhood by using mathematical principles are the game of lego, dakon, puzzles, beam palace, and cooking. For the cultivation of character is very important in early childhood. Characters are implanted through the game as follows: (1) lego is creative, cooperation, responsibility, tolerance; (2) dakon is honesty, discipline, responsibility, leadership. (3) Puzzle is creativity, self-reliance, hard work, and responsibility. (4) beam palace is creativity, curiosity, hard work, discipline, independent and responsible. (5) cooking is cooperation, tolerance, humility, responsibility, manners, caring environment. Then the mathematical concepts introduced in the game as follows: (1) Puzzle, beam palace, lego, and cooking introduced the concept of geometry and (2) Dakon introduced the concept of algebra.