HomeMy WebLinkAboutMathematics Guide handoutMATHEMATICS: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS — K to Grade 2
WHAT CAN PARENTS DO TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOP IN MATHEMATICS?
• Model positive attitudes and cultivate a love of . Use 2ames of logic, chance and make sure that
numeracy at home and in the surrounding it reinforces a mathematical skill, anyone can
environment. and it is fun.
• Ask questions and develop curiosity about Q Think and speak about mathematics to clarify
numbers, patterns, shape & space, measuring and understanding, Use math words to describe and
how you solve problems model short sentences e.g. "I shared 21 cookies
• Make hornework fun and remember nothina new between 4 people, How many cookies could I
should be introduced at home. If you're not not share equally? Could I still share these left
enjoying it, stop. over cookies? 'How?
Remember the IB Learner Profile. D arents model to their son or daughter that they to are
• INQUIRERS
• KNOWLEDGEABLE
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CONSTRUCTING
MEANING
TRANSFERING
MEANING
APPLYING WITH
UNDERSTANDING
Children
hildren build on their previous
Only when learners have
This is when learners act on their
experiences and understanding and
constructed their -ideas about a
understanding,
by reflecting upon their interactions
mathematical concept should they
with objects and ideas.
attempt to transfer this
j Using authentic activities such as
understanding to symbols (pictures,
I practical hand on problem- solving
Learners need to be actively
diagrams, modeling, materials and
activities and realistic situations,
involved in the process with
mathematical notation),
learners should independently
possibilities to interact with
select and use appropriate
Imanipulatives (objects) and to
Learners need opportunities to
symbolic notation to process and
engage in conversations with
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describe their understanding i
record their'hinkin2,
Others.
their own method of syrnbolic
notation,
Use presentations or problenn
When learners make sense of new
solving formats toy appi-Y
ideas thev either confirm their
Learners transfer their svnibolic
understanding. I Tse:
present understanding for what they
notation into conventional
conceive to be occurriniz.
mathematical notation.
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Learners should iustify their
s01titions oraik, and in w-�tinc.
PLACES
FOR MATH TALK
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in the car....
waiting (for dinner, an appt) ...
at a sports event..
• Read numbers (on license plates,
, Count chairs/tables in a
- Read scores and figure out
street signs, freeway exits)
restaurant, estimate capacity
differences between -I--,,,-
• Ask how many more streets to get to
, Interview waiter for how mariv
- Estimate number of people in
54TH St. if we are at 47 TH ,
pizza boxes, napkins.. etc, will
attendance
• Notice if street numbers are
get used on a busy night vs. a
Read speed of pitches or
ascending or descending
slow night
speed of bowling ball, (look,
* Try counting forwards and
o Play number games: I say a
for opporti.inities to read
backwards
number. after . you say the one aft .
numbers and discuss their
* Skip count forwards and backwards.
(or the one before., 10 after, 10
meaning'). Track their
If we count by 5s, will we get to 200
before)
favorite team's stars.
before we get to our destination?
SOURCES FOR PROBLEM SOLVING
FAMILY ACTIN71TIES
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reading stories
calendar
playing games
Make text to math connections
How many days until we go to
Discuss strategies for a good
Read ea numbers
? How many weeks?
move, Keep track of points
family routines
traveling
other
Giving allowance: how much will it
use a map to figure out where
jobs for hire: 2cents for every
take to save up for ? How much
you are; discuss routes-- draw
weed. Measure out amounts
will I have by the end of the month?
your own map
for recipes. Estimate cost of
Give allowance in varying types of
Study maps, map symbols&
groceries. Figure out budget
change
meanings
"or feeding pet. Cut coupons-,
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calculate savings
SOURCES FOR PROBLEM SOLVING
Games
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Dominoes
Pente
Chess
www.mathforum.com 1 Geoboards,
Origami
Yahtze-,
Golf
www.mathforurlLorg./studen Ls/e Jc2,1 Logic shapes and people
Parcheesi
Monopoly
Memory
www.aunl-ymath.com Playing cards
Connect 4
Tangrams
www.mathplayground.com I Measuring, tape/rulers
Draughts
Sorry
www.coolmath-ganies,com E Geoblocks-buildinc, blocks
Chutes &
Counters (e.g., beaus)
Ladders
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Maps, Clocks