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Here are some easy ways to help your children with math:
1) Keepin' it real.
Experience and use math in daily life. It is so important to see the use math skills in everyday life.In the store, at the gas pump, in the kitchen,in the workshop, etc... it is everywhere. Personalize this experience by capturing your child's interests and looking at it as time spent together, so it doesn't come across as more school.
Step2
Use real stuff.
Some students have trouble conceptualizing math skills. For example, Multiplication. Show your child how multiplication is repeated addition. 5+5+5+5= 5X4 = 20. This concept can be introduced in real situations when your child seems interested. Candy, fruit, cold drinks, small toys, work to demonstrate this concept.Some children are ready to talk about money and that opens a world of application.
Once again... for older children-- make it meaningful by using their sport, hobby, or make your own field trip to make it an outing.
Step3
I remember...
Talk to you child about math difficulties you may have had and how you worked through it. OK, perhaps you are actually a math whiz.... there is probably some way you can relate to them on a learning level.
Step4
Can I eat this when we're done?
Use tangibles that your child can handle and move around. Candy and food items- Starbursts, M&Ms, Cheerios, Apple Jacks, Goldfish crackers,etc. can be used to demonstrate counting, addition, subtraction and later even multiplication and division as well as to illustrate basic story problems.
Even for older children or children working at a higher level, taking a more complicated math problem and representing its components in a simplistic way can help a lot.
Step5
Kids like to be the teacher (even the ones who say they don't like school!)
Have your child teach you once he or she has a concept down. There is nothing like teaching a skill to reinforce it for yourself.
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Make it multi-sensory by involving as many of your child's senses as possible. Visual learning is great, but so is auditory, and tactile learning. Create songs, put them to music and sing them together. Draw in the sand at the beach or in a sandbox or tray of sand. Create more physical games, such as ball games,with math facts.
For older kids, build something, cook something, design something using math skills.
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Art supplies can make it fun.Use colorful markers and paper, chalkboards, dry-erase boards, and other ways to show real life uses of math."Take apart" word problems to show how much easier they are when you understand what is being asked.You don't have to be an artist to use any representation that can help him or her sort out the information in the story problem. Stick figures,squiggles, boxes, arrows, question marks, .... any representations of what is actually being asked in the word problem. This strategy, once understood, can be used in later grades as a progression toward solving the problem mathematically. Here again, even algebra problems can be represented... Two trains leaving.....
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While we are talking about math, let's not forget geometry. Hey, where are you going?! Wait! Before you go running off, think about how geometry is all around us in nature and in man-made structures. Even young children can begin to see patterns in nature such as symmetry. Architecture in buildings and shapes in art can be explored in the child's environment to make that aspect of math less abstract and more concrete.Art and architecture, at a higher level, can be very helpful to older kids, too.
You can help you child with math and enjoy your time together, too
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