TEN TIPS FOR HELPING YOUR KIDS BE GOOD AT MATH

TEN TIPS FOR HELPING YOUR KIDS BE GOOD at MATH

1/ Encourage your child to separate toys or other objects into groups. For example, you could ask your child to separate blue toy cars from red cars. 

Use toys or other objects to teach your child the concepts big and little as well as more and less. For instance, let your child play with plastic cups in the bathtub and talk about how some cups have more water in them and some have less.

2/ Talk to your child about numbers. Teachers would like children to be able to recognize the numbers 1 to 10 and to be able to count to 20 when they start school.

3/ Help your child learn the names of such shapes as 

squares, circles, and triangles. Point out toys and 

other items in your home that have these shapes.

4/ Sing songs, recite rhymes, and read stories that have numbers in them—“Ten Little Monkeys: Jumping on the Bed,” for example.

5/ Encourage your child to work simple connect-thedot puzzles

6/ Help your child develop a sense of time. For example, you might say, “We’ll go to the grocery
this evening after we eat dinner.”

7/ Ask your child to explain what he or she learned in math class today. Letting children take the teacher
role gives them the chance to practice new skills and to clarify their thinking on a lesson.

8/ Talk to your child about how adults use math in their everyday lives—grocery shopping, budgeting,
balancing a checkbook, and checking clothing sizes, for example.

9/ Ask your child’s teacher if you can volunteer to help with math activities in your child’s classroom.
Volunteering specifically for these activities will show your child that you believe learning math skills is important.

10/ Ask your child's to visit this simple website  www.simplifycalculator.com
simplify calculator is a math e-learning tool to help kids, Children's and school students to learn and practice online simple mathematics. Teachers and Parents can take printout of simplify addition, subtract, multiply, long division, decimal and fraction calculator and worksheets to use in classroom and home to practice.