Tips for Helping with Math at Home
- Provide your child with hands-on objects and materials. Use concrete objects like blocks, tokens, buttons, or coins to help your child visualize the math problems.
- Encourage your child to draw pictures to represent mathematical situations.
- Look for opportunities to talk about math in the real world.
- Cook with your child and talk about measurement and fractions.
- When you go to the grocery store, practice estimating, adding, and subtracting prices.
- Encourage your child to solve some math problems mentally.
- When you go on a road trip, calculate the distance or the total amount of money you will spend on gas.
- Encourage your child to figure out the time or discuss how much time has passed from when they wake up in the morning to when they go to bed at night.
- Play board games that involve money. Let your child be the banker.
- Build something together. Let your child do the measurement and calculations.
- Look for fractions in the real world.
- Read math books at bedtime. Click on the on the link for some fun math books.
- Ask your child what they’re doing in math class. Have them teach you a new strategy or representation they’ve been using.
- Counting (depending on grade level: by ones, tens, hundreds, any other number, forwards/backwards, even decimals and fractions!)
- Estimation in everyday life (e.g. Do I have enough to buy this item?)
- Fact Fluency
- Playing Cards
- Guess my number
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