The Influence of Didactic Play on Reducing the Level of Anxiety in the Classroom

The article highlights the issues of the teacher's use of didactic games as a form of teaching organization and an effective means of preventing and reducing anxiety among younger students in the process of educational activities in the classroom. The concept of "school anxiety" is characterized. The importance of didactic games for the development of children’s ability and desire to learn, increasing their intellectual activity, enriching the experience of communicative interaction with classmates, forming a sense of camaraderie and responsibility for the team result is considered. The possibility of conducting educational games in the development of any subject content has been substantiated. Examples of didactic games for working in mathematics lessons with first-graders showing anxiety are given.