Developing your math skills doesn’t have to only come from school and tutoring at your local Mathnasium center. You can also help your child build on what they’re learning through every day activities. With summer right around the corner, we have some great ideas to keep math in your child’s life.
Scavenger Hunt
Help your child develop his or her spatial language. Create a map or your home or any other setting where you've hidden a few surprises and have your child search for them. As they familiarize themselves with the map, they will be able to place where windows, doors, and furniture are. Ask them questions about the location of the items and how close they are.
Guess the Weight
The next time you go grocery shopping with your elementary student, play the Guess the Weight game. Choose two different items, like a box of cereal and a jar of salsa, and ask your child which one is heavier. Your child can eventually familiarize themselves with the concept of weight and measurment. The younger children will learn to grasp the difference between light and heavy.
Lemonade Stand
As your child begins to learn about the concept of money and financial literacy, a lemonade stand can help put those lessons into action (and earn a few dollars, too).This will not only help them understand the process of exchanging money, but will also develop their proportional reasoning and making profit.
Indebted to Math
Unfortunately, many of us must deal with debt in a variety of settings. There are many opportunities to start teaching this concept early, particularly as it pertains to borrowing and sharing.
Counting On
Have your child count the number of fruits in your kitchen or how many cars are parked on your street to develop hir or her number sense. Start by counting up to a small number, like 5, until your child is ready to go bigger.
Rapid Rounding Game
By third grade, your child would have started working on more complex computations and they will need a way to check their work and answers. The Rapid Rounding Game can be a fun and competitive way to master an important skill set.
More Land or More Water
Students often work globes and maps of the world as the start to learn the foundations of geography. More Land or More Water is both a game and a hands-on experiment that shows children to make connections and comparisons on a "global" level.
Slap It!
By the end of this game, your child will have developed a solid understanding of odd and even numbers. Based on the popular Slapjack, the game uses cards to support your child's conprehension of odd and even, which will alsohelp your child grasp addition and subtraction, and even multiplication and division.
Prime Number Hunter
Prime numbers can be tricky thing to get a handle on at first. There are always those numbers that appear to be prime, but turn out to have at least a couple factors. With this game, your child will become the Prime Number Hunter who will explore a hundreds chart to find any, if not all, prime numbers.
Explore Genetics
Learning about genetics may not sound like an easy task, but at least it's not rocket science. Through this family activity, your child will be introduced to the concept of genetics, while practicing his or her collection and organization of data.
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