In today's information age, data is doubling faster than ever. Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes - I can not keep up! The mathematics curriculum in schools is much larger, but schools are required to teach with increasingly limited resources. This allows students and parents with the important task of integrating the education at home. Parents really need to partner in the learning process to ensure that our children are always one step ahead.
Parents do not need aMathematician to give your child the gift of mathematics. You just need to take them on the right path. It's never too early or too late to start enjoying math at home with the child.
There is a strong emphasis on the value of reading by children when they are young - even children. We hear time and again that "children who are read to improve the players." Remember: your child learned a new language for the time he or she is two. Many children are reading words before theyThey started school. Why not math? Mathematics and language have their younger children when they are exposed to it, the more fluent they will be. Parents can help their children better in math, just talking about during their time. Your child is more confident in class and always a step forward if they have a sense of numbers before they reach school age.
It's not too late for an older child who is discouraged with the help of mathematics. Many children have regained confidencein math, to re-learn the basics. The challenge is to help them discover the wonders of mathematics, having had a bad experience.
Here are 10 ideas to generate interest in mathematics in your home.
1. Use math during your day, are in everyday conversation. Examples of math are easy to find, once you start looking - in shopping, cooking, gardening, travel, sports, games and even art. Learning opportunities are endless. Use mathematical terms so that they become natural.
2.Combine reading, language and mathematics. Check your library for great books by authors such as David Schwartz and Stuart Murphy that combine math with fun stories. Talk about mathematical prefixes (like kilo, Centi, ISO, etc.).
3. Find role models to enjoy mathematics. Scientists, doctors, engineers, computer programmers and even professional athletes all use math. Encourage your child to ask friends and family how math is used in their careers. Read more about great discoveries made byMathematicians such as Archimedes, Galileo, Newton and Einstein.
4. Combine math with play, games and activities. Create a cube of blocks or polygons of toothpicks. Bake a cake, cut a tree, snowflakes, estimate the number of grains of sand on the beach or even a letter to your aunt in binary code! Endless Games help reinforce arithmetic skills and logical thinking, such as 31, snap, cribbage, chess and hearts. Better yet, order your own gamesChance using dice.
5. Looking for patterns and sequences in our number system and in nature. Explore a numbers chart, play with shapes and spirals. Look wallpaper, honeycombs and pinecones. Children of all ages are excited about interesting patterns such as Fibonacci numbers, the golden mean and Pascal's triangle.
6. Search for the wild and crazy and outrageous! What is a googol? Rhombicosidodecahedron Can you say, How many cubits to the mailbox? Can we eat pi? How many seconds oldGrandma? How long would it take to go to the moon and the mother would weigh?
7. Find science experiments and puzzles that use math and logic. Try to build one, the pendulum sundial, pulley or a pinhole. Explore challenging mazes, the bridges of Königsberg, Napier's Bones, magic number tricks, the Tower of Hanoi, Tangrams, pentominoes, palindromes, Nim games and recently popular Sudoku puzzle first.
8. Teaching thinking skills, making your childmathematical discoveries on their own. Ask them questions, instead of teaching facts over. Encourage him / her to ask questions as well. Ask: "Why do you think it means How did you solve the problem does it feel?"
9. Having your own "math kit" readily accessible so that you are willing to explore math at every opportunity. The bases must be items that you have at home such as pencils, erasers, graph paper, ruler and a tape measure, scissors, calculator,Scale and a wristwatch.
10. Use the Internet and your local library. There are amazing free resources that your child what they can learn to teach mathematics. Many mathematics books are delivered to parents in particular, inspiration, guidance and ideas in writing. And the Internet has become infinite mathematical websites for all ages with online visual applications, videos, games and music.
Time to explore math with your child to help your child excel in otherAreas such as science, geography, music, art and problem-solving. Our children can grow up to enjoy mathematics and we parents get on the road. Find one hour a week to share the wonders of mathematics with your child. Take some 'MATHemACTION at home.
Remember, if not for the math, you might still think that the earth was flat as a pancake!
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