Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Two of the most important foundational math skills are being able to add and subtract quickly. Three of the skills parents and teachers of young students may choose to focus on are: Being able to add and subtract within 5 fluently Knowing all the fact families that equal 10 Adding…
Written by Tara Mitchell of Embark on the Journey. Do your kids dread practicing their math facts? Do they grumble when you break out the flash cards or the math workbooks? Try putting the teaching materials aside every now and again. There are many non-traditional ways our kids can practice counting, adding, subtracting and such. By incorporating…
Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Vocabulary. We often think it applies to social studies and science, but some math units have a boatload of vocabulary. If kids don’t quite grasp this vocabulary, they won’t be successful. That’s where hands-on activities like this geometry vocabulary book come in handy. My oldest has just reached his…
I am a bit math phobic. Even as a forty-something-year-old adult, I hate keeping score when playing games. When it comes time to tally the score, I can practically feel all the other players breathing down my neck, waiting to see who scored the most points. I can feel my mind going blank and the…
Written by Rachel of You’ve Got This. Singing! Skip-Counting! Games! We’ve been doing it all year, and now it is time to put it into practice. We are jumping into a short multiplication review, and then a long, focused study on division. All that prep work to make sure my little guy knows his facts…
I wonder if poor math ever gets its feelings hurt. I mean, when you ask kids their favorite subject, math usually isn’t the answer. (And when it is, people have a tendency to act as if math fans are weird.) When the question is, “What’s your least favorite subject?” that’s when poor math usually gets…
