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Parental involvement is positively related to math achievement when it is low-key, informal and incidental. One of the most important things parents can do is to expose their children to the practical applications of math that are ever-present in the world around them. Below are a few suggestions:
Play games. Dominoes, card games, and board games all provide great opportunities for developing counting and reasoning skills.
Cook together and discuss measurements, quantities and fractions.
Develop money sense by shopping together. Build awareness of coins and counting skills. Estimate total cost.
Problem solve together. If we will have a total of 5 people at dinner and we want everyone to have 2 cookies for dessert, how many cookies will we need?
Use math language to help children make connections between the math they are learning at school and the world around them.
When parents have real mathematical conversations with their children, they help them connect to the math they are exploring at school. When we work as a team, it helps our students see the ways that math is ever-present and meaningful in their lives.
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