(suggested by Kathy Rank, an award winning math teacher, retrieved from www.greatschools.org)
- Talk about math in a positive manner with your child
- Model the importance of math in the real world. Encourage your child to help you when you are doing things like balancing your checkbook, paying bills, calculating the cost of school lunch for the week etc.
- Think out loud when you are using math skills so that your child will know what your thinking process is
- Let your child know there are different ways to solve the same problem
- Play games with your child to reinforce number sense e.g. fun card and dice games
- Practice math skills in kinesthetic apporach. For example, have your child bounce a basketball as he says the multiples of a number. At each bounce, he/she has to say a multiple of 9 like 9, 18, 27, 36
Simple ways to build math skills at home
(suggested by Kathy Rank, an award winning math teacher, retrieved from www.greatschools.org)- Talk about math in a positive manner with your child
- Model the importance of math in the real world. Encourage your child to help you when you are doing things like balancing your checkbook, paying bills, calculating the cost of school lunch for the week etc.
- Think out loud when you are using math skills so that your child will know what your thinking process is
- Let your child know there are different ways to solve the same problem
- Play games with your child to reinforce number sense e.g. fun card and dice games
- Practice math skills in kinesthetic apporach. For example, have your child bounce a basketball as he says the multiples of a number. At each bounce, he/she has to say a multiple of 9 like 9, 18, 27, 36
Useful Links
Everyday Mathematics at Home
Pennsylvania Core Standards on Math
Math activities with Stuart Murphy's books
Wonderful Math Videos
Multiplication Songs for Children
Fraction Song
Telling Time