Daily Math Exercises for Children!
No matter what the grade level, children need lots and lots of practice and exposure to master math concepts. Give your child just the boost needed to become comfortable with numbers! And skip the boring old worksheets-you can inject plenty of math into everyday life without them. Math skills develop most completely if they are shown to be a practical part of the world around us. This experiential approach, with projects, games and hands-on activities, is most meaningful to nearly every child.
Watch this lens for new ideas that you can try with both younger elementary and upper elementary children. There are also books to check out, links to explore and much more. So what are you waiting for? Check out the whole lens, bookmark us and visit each week to get a new dose of arithmetic to share with your kids.
Watch this lens for new ideas that you can try with both younger elementary and upper elementary children. There are also books to check out, links to explore and much more. So what are you waiting for? Check out the whole lens, bookmark us and visit each week to get a new dose of arithmetic to share with your kids.
Daily Math Exercises for Beginners #17
Day One:
Play a game where you have to keep score today. Some ideas include Rummy, Dominoes, or Uno.
Day Two:
Do some skip counting today. Count by fives and tens. Can you count backwards by five's or tens from 100?
Day Three:
Five times today, look at a clock with hands and tell what time it is.
Day Four:
Name ten numbers that are far apart from each other. Tell what number comes before each one.
Day Five:
Find squares in your house today. How many can you find? You might have a contest to see who can find the most.
Play a game where you have to keep score today. Some ideas include Rummy, Dominoes, or Uno.
Day Two:
Do some skip counting today. Count by fives and tens. Can you count backwards by five's or tens from 100?
Day Three:
Five times today, look at a clock with hands and tell what time it is.
Day Four:
Name ten numbers that are far apart from each other. Tell what number comes before each one.
Day Five:
Find squares in your house today. How many can you find? You might have a contest to see who can find the most.
Daily Math Exercises for More Experienced Students #17
Day One:
Play a game where you count money today, like Monopoly or Life.
Day Two:
Skip count by 7's today. See how fast you can say the next number!
Day Three:
Look around your house and count shirts in everyone's closet. Write down how many shirts and how many are blue. Once you've checked everyone's closet, see who has the highest percentage of blue shirts in their closet. Finally, find out what percent of all the shirts in the house are blue.
Day Four:
Write ten story problems that use fractions. Don't forget to make an answer key!
Day Five:
Start or add to your Math Journal: Write down directions for identifying quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals like rectangles, squares, rhombuses, trapezoids and so forth.
Play a game where you count money today, like Monopoly or Life.
Day Two:
Skip count by 7's today. See how fast you can say the next number!
Day Three:
Look around your house and count shirts in everyone's closet. Write down how many shirts and how many are blue. Once you've checked everyone's closet, see who has the highest percentage of blue shirts in their closet. Finally, find out what percent of all the shirts in the house are blue.
Day Four:
Write ten story problems that use fractions. Don't forget to make an answer key!
Day Five:
Start or add to your Math Journal: Write down directions for identifying quadrilaterals and special quadrilaterals like rectangles, squares, rhombuses, trapezoids and so forth.
The Importance of Math
It's impossible to underestimate the importance of math practice, but many people do. Parents have gotten the message that they need to read to their children daily, and some even encourage the writing habit. Now it's time to add one more routine to the list: Math Practice! From the time that children first begin to understand simple counting, they need to be encouraged and nurtured so that they will be successful in math at school. Once there, they need all of the practice and experience they can get so that math comes alive for them. Help them see the connections between real life and the math that they are studying. Let them see you using math every day and stress the importance of sound math skills for life success.
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- tutor1235 tutor1235 Sep 13, 2009 @ 10:14 am
- Thanks, Evelyn! I'll be sure to put that in.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Sep 13, 2009 @ 8:51 am
- You have some great ideas here. I would add playing the game Racko in the first example. It turns putting numbers in order into a game.
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