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Help your child do well in Maths

Help your child do well in Maths. Mrs Maan , Miss Taylor, Mrs Portou & Year 6 pupils 27.4.12. Maths everywhere. Cooking (measurements, capacity, weight) TV time Shopping (best buys/BOGOF) Time Banking/bills Decorating Travelling Moving around Gardening.

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Help your child do well in Maths

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  1. Help your child do well in Maths Mrs Maan, Miss Taylor, Mrs Portou& Year 6 pupils 27.4.12

  2. Maths everywhere...... • Cooking (measurements, capacity, weight) • TV time • Shopping (best buys/BOGOF) • Time • Banking/bills • Decorating • Travelling • Moving around • Gardening

  3. Tips for helping your child to enjoy maths: • measuring their height and working out how much they've grown • on 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

  4. 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

  5. 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=

  6. 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, decrease dear,  costs more, more/most expensiveascending/descending order numerator/denominator

  7. 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)

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