Summer Math
You've worked hard all year....you don't want to lose or forget everything over the summer...so the best thing to do is to practice your math skills when you can over the summer. There are lots of ways you can practice! Here are some ideas.....
*Go to any of the websites listed on this page and practice your facts/skills for a few minutes a day. Here are a couple of new ones that I found that you might want to try out:
www.mathcats.com (great for logic and problem solving)
www.suduko-online.com
*Play simple math games. All you need is a deck of cards or a pair of dice and you can play addition, subtraction or multiplication war.
*Play board games that involve math skills such as Yahtzee, Money Bags, Math Noodlers.
* Remember math is all around you! At the beginning of the year we talked about how we use math in our everyday lives. Here are some examples of activities that are a part of the activities that you might be doing this summer and how you can incorporate math into it:
- When you go to the grocery store, try to estimate the cost of a few items. Do you have enough money to buy everything?
- Use the scale and weigh a piece of fruit.
- Use an analog clock to see how much time is left until you have to leave for your playdate.
- When baking or cooking, use fractions for the recipe.
- When you order a pizza, see how many pieces it is cut up into. Tell your parent what fraction of the pizza you ate!
- Look around your house and in nature for shapes and patterns that you see.
- After your ball game, compare the scores of the two teams, and count the total runs or the difference in runs between the two teams.
- At the park, estimate, then measure to see how fast you can jump or how high you can climb on the monkey bars.
- Get a container and put a few coins in it each day. After a few weeks, count to see how much you have. At the end of the summer, count to see how much you collected. How much can you trade in for dollar bills? Most of all....enjoy your summer and keep up the great math!!!!
