{"id":26104,"date":"2022-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/?p=26104"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:29:51","slug":"bridge-childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/en\/bridge-childs-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge: Child\u2019s Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For several years now, cards at schools have not just had illustrations of Pok\u00e9mon on them. An older type has come back into fashion: bridge cards, which have inspired an entertaining teaching programme for pupils from Years 5-13. These pupils now have everything they need to become whizzes at maths.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is 12:54 on a Thursday at the Lamartine secondary school in Toulouse (in the Haute-Garonne department). The Year 7 students are champing at the bit before their lesson. They have just left the canteen: one of them is swallowing his last bit of bread. Their maths teacher, Betty Bayon, arrives, escorted by three bridge teachers. She has hardly had time to open the door before the children have scrambled to their tables, already prepared. In the centre, the green baize is adorned with the logo of the Saint-Orens club in Gameville, a town in the suburbs of Toulouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One group, in the middle of debating over a joke on a Carambar<\/em> (a French candy), is called to order. Let\u2019s get serious! Anne-Marie Godard, a retired teacher of preparatory classes (for entry to specialised elite schools) and volunteer initiator, has an announcement to make: \u201cPay attention; today is going to be serious. We are saying goodbye to baby bridge: now comes bridge for grown-ups. These are the hands that were played in the National Finals last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, overall, a very excited response from the pupils. They are itching to get going but have to listen to some pointers before starting. Anne-Marie Godard continues with a brilliant introduction to go over some rules and terminology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the sheets, it says \u2018NT\u2019. This an abbreviation of the English \u2018No-Trump\u2019, meaning \u2018Sans-Atout\u2019,\u201d she explains, before adding, \u201cFrom now on, you know that Donald Trump\u2019s name means \u2018atout\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fun way of learning<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Roughly ten pupils choose to attend these sessions. While their peers are still enjoying their breaktime, they prefer to stay warm and play a game. Each table is supervised by one of the instructors and Betty Bayon. She herself did not know anything about bridge before taking part in an initiation as part of the Academic Training Plan in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following an agreement signed by the Minister of National Education in 2012, the French Bridge Federation, which had already launched a teaching programme in 1990, then designed a teaching manual containing fun exercises to introduce into maths lessons and the extracurricular activities of school pupils aged 11-18. A type of minibridge has also been proposed to teachers, albeit a simplified version of the game for primary schools; an opportunity to work on mental arithmetic in a fun way. There is no minimum age requirement but it is generally advised to start in Year 5 and this is for a purely technical reason: the children need to be able to hold thirteen cards in their hands. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

As a matter of fact, using this resource depends on three contributors: when a teacher new to the field wishes to get involved in this project, he needs to, of course, have been given the go-ahead by his management but also needs help from volunteer teachers from a club in the vicinity to supervise the sessions. At the Lamartine secondary school, the initiative is being encouraged by the headteacher, Pascal Louvet, who is convinced that \u201cthe pupils will get their brains working whilst having fun\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Dusting off the image<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bridge wants to debunk its image, which is considered outdated. It is no longer destined for retirees, as is commonly imagined: games are becoming intergenerational and it is not uncommon for young people to teach their parents the rules. Patrick Bogacki, president of the French Bridge Federation, claims that \u201cpupils who leave secondary school having learnt bridge there are increasingly becoming junior squad members\u201d. In Toulouse, Betty Bayon witnessed a reconciliation with mathematics: \u201cPupils who were having difficulty regained their self-confidence. Parents also observed the benefits: their children learned to concentrate better and the most restless among them calmed down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the year, she ran the teaching sessions in her Personal Support slots. The pupils then had the option to continue their learning in extracurricular time, during two sessions offered to Year 8s on Tuesdays and Year 7s on Thursdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of them went even further with their adventures, participating in the Regional Championship for their area. The winners then compete in the National Final in Paris. Places at the Olympiads are also offered at the end of the year. The process for this graded individual test, considered to be difficult, is being reworked in order to bring out more of the fun aspect. Michelle Castaing, retired maths teacher and bridge trainer, actually suggests \u201can even more high-profile status\u201d. In her eyes, \u201cbridge could be offered to the same degree that other options are, such as Greek, Latin, Occitan, Sign Language\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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International bridge player<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Elsewhere on the planet, cards have conquered schools in Italy, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands, as well as China, Chile and Canada. The French Bridge Federation is supporting teacher training in Belgium and Switzerland. Michel Gouy, previously a maths inspector for the Lille Academy (in the Nord department) who designed the teaching programme, has taken the discipline into two \u201dlyc\u00e9es fran\u00e7ais\u201d in the UAE (read interview).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, English Bridge Education & Development (EBED), in close connection with the English Bridge Union, is wholly dedicated to this cause for children and teenagers but also students. Their website is not lacking in originality when recruiting new members into universities such as Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford: \u201cBridge is not just a fun and mentally challenging game but a fantastic place to meet people and make new friends – you may even find love!\u201d Bridge and schools are setting out on a long romance together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The mental benefits of bridge<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Michel Gouy, former maths inspector for the Lille Academy (in the Nord department) and bridge player affiliated to the Flanders Committee, who took part in the development of the teaching programme for the French Bridge Federation.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What made you start on this project?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the time, I was a maths teacher and bridge player (Editor\u2019s Note:<\/em> French Mixed Teams Champion in 2011, Honour category). I realised that many aspects of the discipline can be directly linked with the academic syllabus: when I play a deal, I solve a problem and am led by logical reasoning. Students work with probabilities, statistics, coded information, arithmetic, reading and interpreting clues\u2026 They are doing maths without realising it: it\u2019s like hiding vegetables in a delicious meal!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bridge is useful for maths; but not only that…<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It actually does some important work on one\u2019s language skills. For example, we say a \u201cbalanced\u201d hand, \u201cdiscard\u201d, \u201chand\u201d, \u201csuits\u201d, \u201che leads\u201d\u2026 What do these words mean in the game and do they have the same meaning in everyday life? Young people are improving their verbal ability. They have to clearly explain how they have played a hand; their arguments need to be sound if they are to convince their partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the social element of bridge for children?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The students play in a team, so they are winning and losing together. Communication is essential; they must pay attention to information from their partner. I have heard unfortunate things before, like: \u201cSo-and-so doesn\u2019t know how to play\u201d or boys declaring to girls, \u201cWe\u2019re going to crush you!\u201d We discuss them so that we can improve inclusivity and diversity. Bridge is also used in the Adapted General and Vocational Teaching Sections (SEGPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And could there be future bridge prodigies sitting on school benches?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of course! Julien Bernard and Ana\u00efs Leleu are champions who learned bridge at school. This happy outcome is, of course, not the main goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C\u00e9dric Villani campaigns for bridge<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In 2018, C\u00e9dric Villani, mathematician and candidate in the local elections for Paris in 2020, and Charles Torossian, General Inspector for the Ministry of National Education, submitted a report to the ministry which contained 21 measures for improving the level of maths of French pupils, whose results have been judged to be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d. This document prompted the reinforcement of teacher training, the handling of objects from a younger age and also some experimentation with methods that had proven successful abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entertainment aspect was also mentioned: \u201cThe enrichment of school learning through certain extracurricular activities, such as thinking games (chess, bridge, magic, maths clowns, some video games, etc.), is acknowledged by everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the deputy of Essone declared, while on a visit to the French Bridge Federation in June 2018, that the discipline was \u201ca top-tier pedagogical tool\u201d, thanks to which \u201cone can tackle so many questions involving mental gymnastics\u201d. For the laureate of the Fields medal in 2010, \u201cbridge clearly has a place in the classroom alongside other mind games\u201d. Good life experience that requires \u201cvolunteers\u201d but \u201cwhich we have to encourage as much as we can\u201d. Through the game, the pupils\u2019 regard for maths increases\u2026 as do their grades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Words from (young) bridge players<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Honorine\"
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Honorine, 12 years old, Year 7 pupil<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt first, when you don\u2019t know anything, it\u2019s hard; but learning the rules is enough. You always have to think so that you don\u2019t go down. My grandparents have taken a bridge course. Soon, I hope to be able to play with them!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hajar, 11 years old, Year 8 pupil<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI won the championship for the Midi-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es region and went on to the final in Paris. I lost but I was happy: it was a very good experience. You always learn new things and that helps me with mental maths.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Milan, 11 years old, Year 7 pupil<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re in a group and always have to communicate with the other players. I learned the game with my maths teacher\u2026 and I got my twin brother into it. Now, he comes to the sessions with us. The hour goes by quickly!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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National Education: results of the \u201cbridge promotion\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The agreement signed between the Ministry of National Education and the French Bridge Federation in 2012, already renewed in 2016, was prolonged for three years at the end of last year. The terms encourage the use of the discipline from primary school to sixth form for fighting innumeracy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recognise the pedagogical contribution of bridge for developing pupils\u2019 abilities, especially in mathematics,\u201d advises Olivier Soubestre, an assistant in the office for Educational, Cultural and Sporting Activities at the Ministry of National Education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Every year, more than 7,000 pupils are recruited across the country and around 1,500 teachers have taken the training created for this purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe real challenge of this partnership rests partly on the initiatives led by bridge clubs on a local scale and partly on the willingness of the teachers,\u201d the attach\u00e9 of the State Administration reminds us. Over the course of the 2018-2019 school year, 22 regional education authorities \u2013 out of a total of 30 \u2013 introduced bridge into their schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Normale Sup\u00e9rieure reveals its trump card<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), the most recent to join and created in 2013, took to the game at the start of the 2019-2020 school year by offering lessons to its students that would be given by the Chartres club in Brittany. As for the Normalians at the historical site in Paris (Fifth arrondissement), they have had their own club for more than ten years, which offers two sessions per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They said…<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThanks to bridge, pupils who were having difficulty regained their self-confidence,\u201d<\/em> Betty Bayon, maths teacher at the Lamartine secondary school in Toulouse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c<\/strong>A top-tier pedagogical tool,\u201d <\/em>C\u00e9dric Villani, mathematician.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s like hiding vegetables in a delicious meal!\u201d <\/em>Michel Gouy, bridge player affiliated to the Flanders Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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