Hands on Fraction Activities for Home (Post 2 of 4)
Continuing the topic of teaching and learning of fractions with the Common Core approach, today’s post focuses upon hands on fraction activities that you can do at home that help to incorporate the...
View ArticleTeaching Fractions through Measurement (Post 3 of 4)
Learning about fractions can be made fun by incorporating hands on activities that involve measurement and fractions. The first idea in teaching fractions through measurements that comes to mind is...
View ArticlePracticing Fraction Skills through the Use of Technology (Post 4 of 4)
Fractions can be made fun by incorporating the use of technology at home to provide both a learning platform as well as a way to reinforce skills that you child may be learning at school. The...
View ArticleFall Themed Math Activities
The fall is a great time to enjoy the shift to cooler temperatures and see the changes of the seasons. You can combine the great weather and the seasonal changes along with fun math learning games...
View ArticleCompleting Math Homework on Google Docs
When you think of Google Docs, you traditionally think of documents that include written work like a letter, notes, or completing a digital worksheet for a class. However, did you know that your child...
View ArticleGraphic Organizers for Math: Venn Diagrams
Graphic organizers help children to organize their thoughts on paper before completing a task. Traditionally, you will see graphic organizers used in language arts, reading, science, and social...
View ArticleShape Scavenger Hunt
A fun interactive math activity that you can do at home is a shape scavenger hunt. This helps your child to recognize and find shapes in a different way that adds interest and challenge to learning....
View ArticleComputer Programming and Math
In a previous post on learning about angles, I briefly mentioned the use of code.org to learn math concepts. Code.org sponsors a challenge during a week in December for children all around the world...
View ArticleAlgebra for Elementary Age Children (1 of 4)
Algebra is a concept that many parents think that their children won’t be exposed to or master until late middle school or even into high school. However, this definitely does not have to be the case...
View ArticleAlgebra for Elementary Age Children Using Word Problems (2 of 4)
Now’s the time to begin algebra for elementary age children using word problems. In the first post in this series, I encouraged you to introduce algebra concepts to your children at home through the...
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