If you want to start supplementing your child’s math education, but don’t know where to start, you’ve come to the right place! Hands-on math activities should engage your child in a multitude of ways — physically, verbally, aurally and visually, just to name a few. By playing and sharing together, you solidify and reinforce difficult […]
10 Math Books 9-11 Year Olds Will Love
Math isn’t all worksheets and flashcards. It can be a lot of fun, too! Reading is a great way to learn together and reinforce concepts. The following 10 books are a perfect place to start when you’re looking for math books for your 9-11 year old. 1. The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang A […]
De-Mystifying Math: 8 Tips for Supplementing Your Child's Math Education (Ages 9-11)
Math. It’s necessary, requires higher thought processes, and can be completely intimidating for elementary school-aged kids. If you have the right approach, attitude and mindset as a parent, you can help your child gain not only an understanding and appreciation for math, but perhaps even a fondness. In any case, supplementing your child’s education […]
De-Mystifying Math: 5 Tips for Supplementing Your Child's Math Education (Ages 6-9)
Math can be a daunting subject, particularly when learning complicated concepts for the first time. Reinforcing math education at home is clearly important — whether your child is home-schooled, attends public or private school, goes to a charter school or does school online. Helping your child develop good habits — not to mention a good […]
10 Hands-On Math Activities for Ages 6-9
As your child advances through elementary education, math concepts–even the basics–can become confusing, even frustrating to some. At ages 6-9, kids are not only fine-tuning basic addition and subtraction and continuing with multiplication and division, they are also learning time, measurements, fractions and more. It’s not merely important to supplement their math learning at […]
10 Math Books 6-9 Year Olds Will Love!
Math can seem a very daunting endeavor when you’re beginning to learn complex concepts. Reading picture books is a great way to make math more accessible to our children. If you want to show your 6-9 year old just how fun math can be, take a look at these great math books! 1. The Penny […]
De-Mystifying Math: 7 Tips for Supplementing Your Child's Math Education (ages 3-6)
Whether your child attends public school, a charter school, uses private school or tutoring or is homeschooled, you probably already know how important it is to reinforce classroom learning at home. Fortunately, there’s an overabundance of information online to help you teach your little ones at home, especially during the summer, BUT where do you […]
8 Hands-On Math Activities for 3-6 Year Olds
Supplementing your child’s math education is a big job, but reinforcing school-taught concepts is important. Fortunately, math concepts can be fun and easy to review – all it takes is a little creativity and imagination. You can make abstract math much more concrete and natural for your child with just a small effort. Here […]
10 Math Books 3-6 Year Olds Will Love
If you’re in the market for different techniques to supplement your child’s school-taught math education at home, don’t overlook something you’re probably already doing! Reading to your child encourages all kinds of skills – from letter and sound recognition to imagination to critical thinking and problem solving skills. With the right kind of picture books, […]