You don’t need to be a maths genius in order to give your child a good head start at mathematics. Simply try to incorporate maths into your everyday activities and you will soon help your child to develop their numeracy skills.
Here are some top tips from an independent school in Somerset to help your kids with maths.
Everyday maths
To help make maths feel more fun, try to incorporate it into your everyday life. For example include your child in any activity at home which involves numbers. This could be measuring out ingredients when cooking or counting money for shopping. By practicing maths in this way, your child won’t even realise they are learning!
School learning
It can be helpful to understand how your child is being taught maths at school. This will help you to practice the same techniques at home and teach maths at the correct level for your child. Speak to your child’s teacher to find out what they are currently working on and what you can do to support your child’s learning.
Let them teach you
Ask your child to be the teacher and explain their maths homework to you. This will not only help you to keep up to date with what they are working on at school, but it will also help your child to remember what they have learnt by repeating it.
Be patient
It is also a good idea to let your child try to work things out on their own and then show you how they achieved their answer. If your child gets stuck or makes a mistake, you will then be able to understand where they went wrong and offer your help.
Online learning
There are many useful online resources that can help your child to improve their maths skills. Again, you can ask your child’s teacher for recommendations, or have a look at online activities aimed at your child’s age group. Many of these are free and often include games, which can help to make learning maths much more exciting.
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