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Help your child do well in Maths

Unlock your child's potential in maths with engaging activities and practical applications. From cooking and shopping to gardening and decorating, discover how everyday experiences can make maths enjoyable. Utilize fun games like number-plate challenges, budgeting at shops, and measuring heights to help develop basic skills and confidence. Familiarize your child with maths vocabulary to enhance understanding. Explore more resources and updated teaching methods at Mad4Maths. Equip your child for a brighter mathematical future today!

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Help your child do well in Maths

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  1. Help your child do well in Maths Mrs Maan, Miss Taylor, Mrs Portou& Year 6 pupils 27.4.12

  2. Maths everywhere...... • Cooking (measurements, capacity, weight) • TV time • Shopping (best buys/BOGOF) • Time • Banking/bills • Decorating • Travelling • Moving around • Gardening

  3. Tips for helping your child to enjoy maths: • measuring their height and working out how much they've grown • on car journeys - playing number-plate games, adding and subtracting with road signs, thinking about speed by dividing distance by time • at the shops - weighing fruit and vegetables, budgeting with pocket money, working out the relative value of products by comparing prices and weight

  4. in the kitchen - with weighing and measuring, and temperature and timings • making models and origami shapes • playing games together– jigsaws, monopoly, top trumps, match attacks cards

  5. More general tips.... • The more time your children spend practicing their basic maths skills, the sooner they will develop confidence in their abilities. 4x4= 16÷4= 5x4= 20÷4= 4x5=

  6. They will never get a real feeling for maths nor learn more advanced concepts without an understanding of its vocabulary. e.g. subtract, subtraction, take (away), minus, decrease dear,  costs more, more/most expensiveascending/descending order numerator/denominator

  7. Maths has changed since I attended school http://www.mad4maths.com/parents/ Excellent website for parents, covering: • Helping your kids with maths • How teaching has changed • How calculation is taught (the new methods)

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