Visual discrimination is a skill of immense importance, especially in the initial growth years of a child. Visual discrimination is the ability to see the differences between things. The ability to discern and differentiate visual stimuli lays the groundwork for their cognitive development and sets the stage for future academic success. Being able to correctly identify and understand helps with academic skills like reading, writing, and math. Visual discrimination has intimate connections to other brain and body functions, including hearing, memory, motion, and ambulation because it occurs by the eyes and brain detecting differences in objects, utilizing working memory and stored memory to determine distinct differences or matched features. Many activities help develop these skills. Puzzle Pitstop's Tessellation Puzzle helps to sort and identify different shapes and colors in a puzzle and helps develop visual discrimination skills. This is useful for recognizing patterns and details in other areas of life. These puzzles involve recognizing and creating patterns. Developing this skill can be beneficial in various areas, including mathematics and problem-solving in everyday life.

When working on puzzles, students have to look at different pieces and pay attention to the visual details to determine where the pieces will go. For visual discrimination, specifically, the visual cortex, contained within the occipital lobe, is the area responsible for detecting the shape and orientation of objects. Every activity we do should try to engage the brain with more cognitive skills. After all, it is the brain that does everything. In this paper's particular topic about visual discrimination, I have focused on the “visual” skill which involves the eyes but our eyes are just the window, or lens. The brain is responsible for perceiving or making sense of what the lens has seen.