Making Math Memorable

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Interventionist  Homework Tips:

Changing Negative to Positive

All children learn differently based on their individual learning style. Many teachers today look at the theory of  ”Multiple Intelligences.”  to help us understand each child’s gifts that can often determine a child’s best learning style. By understanding your child’s  ”Multiple Intelligence” I can adapt my lessons.

For example, that child that is just too wiggly to focus during a quiet lesson may be strong in the bodily-kinesthic or musical area.  By adding range of movement, having your child physically manipulate math tools,  listen to  background music or relaxing sounds, sing math songs, and adding nmemonics to my lessons the  bodily-kinesthic or musical child becomes more engaged and can focus better.

The link below has a survey for parents to learn their child’s strengths. Understanding your child’s strengths and changing your homework routing may make homework an enjoyable happy time in your home.

:http://school.familyeducation.com/multiple-intelligences/learning-styles/37704.html?page=2#ixzz18ISV73Aj

Question: My child has a hard time counting coins and understanding large numbers.

How can I help at home?

Number grids are an excellent manipulative that you can use to help your child visualize different values of coins. Manipulatives are materials that children use in activities to visualize and explore mathematical concepts.  You can create your own color number grids in the game section.  I recommend making different grids to represent coins.

Homework Helper :

counting by 1 starting at 1 (penny)     counting by 5 starting at 5 (nickel)

counting by 10 starting at 10 (dime)  counting by 25 starting at 25 (quarter)

These grids are also help children understand larger numbers. Try coloring 1-10 in one color. Then change colors for 11-20.  Keep repeating with different colors. Now your child can see the difference between the 20s and 30s.  S/he will be able to count and identify numbers much faster. Extra help at home helps build the confidence needed to master new mathematical skills.

Homework Helper :

color each row a different color

counting by 2 starting at 2 (for even numbers)     counting by 2 starting at 1 (for odd numbers)

Read on to learn more about some of the other manipulatives that are used on a regular basis throughout the Everyday Mathematics lessons.  For more examples of on-line manipulatives please visit the game page. Here you and you child can play games using virtual manipulaives. They best way to encorage math at home is to play math games. Counting coins and sorting items are easy activites that take no time to prepare.  The more that math becomes hands-on the more your child will become engaged in the activity.

Some of the below items can be checked out from my math inventory.  You can  email atnmarshall@d102.org and  request materials.  Please return the materials after one week so that other children can check out the materials as well.  :) Mrs. Marshall

Sorting, Patterns Geometry:

attribute blocks,  pattern blocks, pattern block templates, geoboards, (rubber bands to show shapes on the geoboard)

Counting, Identifying Numbers, Comparing Numbers:

counters, cards, dice, dominoes, number cards, number linesplay money (coins & bills), base blocks ( 1, 10, 100, 1000)

Measuring:

clocks, timers, wooden cubes,  plastic cubes, inch cubes, rulers, tape measure, metersticks, thermometers, calendars