Summer Math Tips: A Guide for Families
We're delighted to introduce Summer Math Tips: A Guide for Families—a valuable resource designed to help families combat the "summer slide" and keep their children engaged in math over the summer.
Why Share This Guide?
This guide offers practical tips and strategies that integrate math into everyday life, helping children maintain and enhance their math competency. By incorporating these tips, families can boost their children's confidence, perseverance, and enthusiasm for math, ensuring they are ready and excited for learning in the new school year. These tips will nurture a love of learning, deepen understanding, and strengthen abilities to use mathematical thinking both in and out of school.
What's Inside?
10 Tips to Support Children's Math Learning:
- Be a Sounding Board: Encourage children to express their thoughts.
- Encourage Explaining Thinking: Use visuals, graphs, or words to support their reasoning.
- Think Together and Share Ideas with Respect: Empower children to decide what to do.
- Create a Safe Space: Encourage risk-taking and confidence-building in math.
- Praise Effort, Perseverance, and Thoughtfulness: Celebrate hard work and persistence.
- Welcome Mistakes: Help children see mistakes as learning opportunities.
- Play Math Games: Use riddles, budgeting challenges, or other thinking games.
- Use Mathematics Thoughtfully: Help children focus on the quality of their thinking.
- Use a Thoughtbook: Encourage children to revisit their thinking often.
- Think Like a Mathematician: Use key competencies: being reasonable and reflective.
