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Discover practical ways to help your child excel in maths through everyday activities. From cooking and shopping to gardening and travelling, incorporate maths in fun and engaging ways. Try measuring your child's height, playing number-plate games during car journeys, budgeting while shopping, or making models through origami. Building confidence in basic maths skills is essential, and understanding the vocabulary used will enhance their learning. Explore more on supporting your child's maths journey at mad4maths.com!
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Help your child do well in Maths Mrs Maan, Miss Taylor & Year 6 pupils 3.12.10
Maths everywhere...... • Cooking (measurements, capacity, weight) • TV time • Shopping (best buys/BOGOF) • Time • Banking/bills • Decorating • Travelling • Moving around • Gardening
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
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
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=
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
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)