June 2019 - Summertime Math!
Summertime Math!
Summer is a time for rest and relaxation, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with math. There are numerous ways to embed math into everyday summer activities. Here is a list to get you started:
- Monitoring temperature
- Outdoor scavenger hunts
- Gardening
- Cooking
- Grocery shopping
- Budgeting for a Trip
- Packing suitcases/Trunk
- Scheduling
- Mapping
Happy summer!
May 2019 - Visual Math
Visual Math
Mathematics is highly visual. Using visual representations will help enhance your child’s understanding of quantity, build fluency and flexibility with numbers and support the development of both spatial and algebraic reasoning.
Mathematical models can help support your child to think about numbers visually - improving both their understanding of quantity, promoting automaticity and flexibility with numbers.
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April 2019 - Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy
There are many opportunities to engage your children in conversations about money. From a very young age children are interested in learning about money and leveraging these conversations can have lifelong benefits. From learning the value of coins and dollars, to budgeting and finances, talking about money supports many different mathematical concepts (e.g., adding, subtracting, percentages and estimation).
March 2019 - Spring Math: Math is Outside Too!
Spring Math: Math is Outside Too!
Spring and nice weather make for a great time to get outdoors and connect with math. Whether you are taking a walk, filling compost bags with leaves or starting to build that garden shed, there are many opportunities to engage in rich mathematical discussions with your child.
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Here are some questions you can pose to your child as you engage with nature:
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What shapes do you see in that house?
January 2019 - Questioning
Questioning
December 2018 - Winter Math
Winter Math
Winter break is right around the corner! This is a great opportunity to take time with your child and connect math to the real world. Below are some ideas that will help get you started:
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Grocery shopping can involve money, budgeting, estimating, adding, subtracting, and measuring
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Cooking can involve weighing, measuring, ordering, estimating, adding, and multiplying
November 2018 - Problem Solving
At school, students have opportunities to engage in problem solving tasks. At home, mathematical problem solving can take on many different forms. For example, budgeting, time scheduling, measuring and constructing are all situations where children would need to problem solve. Problem solving, being the process of finding solutions to challenging issues, is an essential component of your child’s mathematical journey.
As your child works through problem solving tasks at home, here are some strategies you can encourage them to use and questions you can ask them:
October 2018 - Promoting a Growth Mindset
Promoting a Growth Mindset
“In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” (Dweck, 2013)
September 2018 - Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math, Grades 1-8
The Ontario government recently released a parent fact sheet and a teacher’s guide on Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math in grades 1 to 8.
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