Help your child Help your child do well in do well in

MathsMaths

Mrs Maan, Miss Taylor & Year 6 pupils

3.12.10

Maths everywhere......Maths everywhere......Cooking (measurements, capacity,

weight)TV timeShopping (best buys/BOGOF)TimeBanking/billsDecoratingTravellingMoving aroundGardening

Tips for helping your child to Tips for helping your child to enjoy maths:enjoy maths:measuring their height and working

out how much they've grownon 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....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, decreasedear,  costs more, more/most expensiveascending/descending ordernumerator/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)