Help your child do well in Maths

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Help your child do well in Maths

• Mrs Maan, Miss Taylor Year 6 pupils
• 3.12.10

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Maths everywhere......

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

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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

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• 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

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More general tips....

• The more time your children spend practicing
  their basic maths skills, the sooner they will
  develop confidence in their abilities.
• 4x4 164
• 5x4 204
• 4x5

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• 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/den
ominator
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• 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)