Talking Math with Your Kids
In Table Talk Math, John Stevens offers ideas for initiating authentic, math-based conversations that can benefit (and be fun for) everyone at the table - no matter how young or old. The more often you can get your kids to notice and be curious about all the numbers, patterns, and equations in the world around them, the more likely they are to start thinking about math as something fun, even if it isn’t always easy. And that’s when you really have something to talk about.
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This website is dedicated to helping parents support their children’s mathematical development. We know we need to read with our children every day, but what should we do for math? The answer is to talk about math with them as we and they encounter numbers and shapes in our everyday lives.
Talking Math with Your Kids is now available as a Kindle e-book. The book is primarily for parents of children ages 3-9 and contains lots of new, exclusive content. Buying the book helps support the work on the blog (click on book image for link). But don’t worry, the blog continues to be available for free.
“How to Talk Math With Your Kids”
In this video, math educator Kent Haines shares three easy-to-follow guidelines to help parents talk about math with their children.
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Math Before Bed is a collection of prompts that can inspire mathematical discussions that you and your children can have before bed, at dinner, or anytime.
The mission of Bedtime Math is to help kids love numbers so they can handle the math in real life.
Every day, they serve up a quick bite of wacky math just for fun. Parents can sign up by email, on their website, and on their free iPhone/iPad or Android app. Whether it’s flamingos, ninjas or pillow forts, kids can see the math in their favorite topics. No logins. No drilling. No scores. It takes only 5 minutes a day, and kids clamor for it.
“Batteries”
In this blog post, Christopher Danielson, the author of Which One Doesn’t Belong? uses an example of batteries to help us see the mathematics in everyday life.
“Teaching Parents to Talk Math with Their Kids”
The article talks about the importance of talking about math with children starting at a young age. It also shares some surprising results such as a study that found “early math knowledge predicts later reading ability even better than early reading does.”
“Ever Wonder What They’d Notice? (If Only Someone Would Ask)”
In this short talk by Annie Fetter from The Math Forum, she shares how we can talk to our kids to make them think by asking two simple questions, “What do you notice? What do you wonder?”
