Card Counting and poker good for education?

Question

Before you go arrg no way.. think


To be good at blackjack card counting you need to learn to:

Have a good memory to remeber the cards.

Very good at mental arithmetic

To be able to think and count very fast.

Do this in an environment with there is lots to distract you

To do it without getting caught

To have the confidence to do it cooly and relax.

To be able to think of other things at the same time and say have a converstaion.


It also makes leanring a lot more fun and give a reason to study.

This would help other subjects as well.

You just need to point out Casions know their stuff and good at catching people and if they try it with the wrong people. Well anatomy removal...


As for poker...

Strategy,

Social skills,

Mental artihmatic

Negotiation skills

Manipluation skills.

Cool under pressure

Interogation (good for spotting liers)

Less likley to get conned

Brinkmanship

Just point out gambling problems ie no loans

Answer 1

I agree to a certain extent - I use card games with my daughter to teach her many skills.

You could also teach them about - the law, the value of not cheating, honour, etc

Answer 2

Depends on what you want to learn I suppose. But there is no doubt that the world's best card players are of a high IQ and very quick-thinking and resourceful.

On Wall Street in New York, many of the best traders are also known to be skilled poker and gin rummy players. Goes with the territory.

If they taught card-playing skills in school there would be some better-prepared for the real world students coming out of them, that's for sure (especially for the business realm). And that's one class I wouldn't have skipped!

Answer 3

Any activities to help with all the areas you write about have value. I once had a little lad who could not read his school book but read the TV page fluently--once he cottoned on words were the same his reading at school got better. We read magazines and the TV pages until he was ready to switch to more conventional material. Similarly his numeracy was based around betting slips his Dad gave him. He left primary school both numerate and literate.

Answer 4

Looks to me like you have many of the answers. If you applied these skills to other subject and realized that unlike cards there are many things that don't have an absolute count you would do well.

Answer 5

Our school actually ran a club to learn bridge for those vary reasons my daughter who had no confidence in her ability to do maths is now studying to take higher maths GCSE after playing Bridge for three years.