HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED Book Four: HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN MATH WITH ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AGED 5 TO 13 Forward. You can make the most of your child's natural curiosity. Teaching and learning happen when parents and children do simple things together.

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HELPING YOUR CHILD LEARN MATH
WITH ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AGED 5 TO 13 Foreword
"Why?"
This is the question we parents are always trying to answer. It's good that children ask questions: that's the best way to learn. All children have two wonderful resources for learning -- imagination and curiosity. As a parent, you can awaken your children to the joy of learning by encouraging their imagination and curiosity.

'Helping Your Child Learn math' is one in a series of books on different education topics intended to help you make the most of your child's natural curiosity. Teaching and learning are not mysteries that can only happen in school. They also happen when parents and children do simple things together.

For instance, you and your child can: sort socks on laundry day
-- sorting is a major function in math and science; cook a meal together -- cooking involves not only math and science but good health as well; tell and read each other stories -- storytelling is the basis for reading and writing (and a story about the past is also history); or play a game of hopscotch together -- playing physical games will help your child learn to count and start on a road to lifelong fitness.

By doing things together, you will show that learning is fun and important. You will be encouraging your child to study, learn, and stay in school.

This book will give you a short rundown on facts, but the biggest part of the book is made up of simple, fun activities for you and your child to do together. Your child may even beg you to do them.

"The first teachers are the parents, both by example and conversation. But don't think of it as teaching. Think of it as fun."

So, let's get started. I invite you to find an activity in this book and try it.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Basics
Important Things To Know
math in the Home
Picture Puzzle
More or Less
Problem Solvers
Card Smarts
Fill It Up
Half Full, Half Empty Name that Coin
Money Match
Money's Worth
In the News
Look It Up
Newspaper Search Treasure Hunt
Family Portrait

Mathland: The Supermarket
Get Ready
Scan It
Weighing In
Get into Shapes Check Out
It's in the Bag Put It Away

Math on the Go
Number Search
License Plates
Total It
How Long? How Far? Guess If You Can Appendices

1: Parents and the Schools
2: What Should I Expect from a Math Program?
3: What We Can Do To Help Our Children Learn Introduction

Most parents will agree that it is a wonderful experience to cuddle up with their child and a good book. Few people will say that about flash cards or pages of math problems. For that reason, we have prepared this book to offer some math activities that are meaningful as well as fun. You might want to try doing some of them to help your child explore relationships, solve problems, and see math in a positive light. These activities use materials that are easy to find. They have been planned so you and your child might see that math is not just work we do at school but, rather, a part of life.

It is important for home and school to join hands. By fostering a positive attitude about math at home, we can help our children learn math at school.

It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!
Math is everywhere and yet, we may not recognize it because it doesn't look like the math we did in school. math in the world around us sometimes seems invisible. But math is present in our world all the time -- in the workplace, in our homes, and in life in general.

You may be asking yourself, "How is math everywhere in my life? I'm not an engineer or an accountant or a computer expert!" math is in your life from the time you wake until the time you go to sleep. You are using math each time you set your alarm, buy groceries, mix baby food, keep score or time at an athletic event, wallpaper a room, decide what type of shoe to buy, or wrap a present. Have you ever asked yourself, "Did I get the correct change?" or "Do I have enough petrol to drive 20 miles?" or "Do I have enough juice to fill all my children's flasks for lunch?" or "Do I have enough bread for the week?" math is all this and much, much more.

How Do You Feel About math?
How do you feel about math? Your feelings will have an impact on how your children think about math and themselves as mathematicians. Take a few minutes to answer these questions:

* Did you like math in school? * Do you think anyone can learn math?
* Do you think of math as useful in everyday life?
* Do you believe that most jobs today require math skills?
If you answer "yes" to most of these questions, then you are probably encouraging your child to think mathematically.

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