Mathematics

Advice for Families

• NYC Math Team's Tips on Helping Your Child with Math The document provides suggestions for what to do and not do when working with children.

• Ever Wonder What They’d Notice? Suggestions on how to talk with children about what they notice.

This video explains why it is important to figure out what children notice rather than simply answering their questions. The presenter offers examples of how she does this.

• Advice for Parents from Professor Jo Boaler Talking Math with Your Kids. Suggestions for families about how to work with children on math. 

• Talking Math with Your Kids Math Blog The site includes a blog, which discusses various ideas about how to work with and talk to your children about mathematics,.

Math Games

• PBS Kids math games and videos  Fun interactive math games and stories. Includes videos/cartoons about math at various grade levels.

• Math is Fun Website includes games, diagrams, and definitions to help with mathematics.

•  MathGames Useful math games for children to practice their math calculations

• Games for Young Minds  Math Games that develop conceptual understanding of mathematics

Math Manipulatives

• Didax Digital Manipulatives Useful math games for children to practice their math calculations

• Pearson Digital Manipulatives Pearson Math Tools Virtual Manipulatives to help children work on math. Tens Frames, counters, etc.

• 5 Simple Homemade Math Manipulatives Home made math manipulatives

This resource provides ideas for how to create math manipulatives from common materials. It is very helpful for parents who would like to create materials at home for their children can use to help them with their math work.

Educational Videos

• Khan Academy Videos and online resources to support mathematics learning

These videos give directions for how to complete math problems. It is an excellent resource to assist with recalling mathematical procedures to solve problems.

• Bagels arithmetic, money

• Cereal better buy

• Cookies and Cupcakes measurement conversions, proportional reasoning

• Cupcakes proportional reasoning

• Fingers, Eyes & Noses algebraic thinking, patterns, structure

• Reading on the Subway rates and ratios

• Riding the subway arithmetic, proportional reasoning

• Runaway Hamsters arithmetic, fractions

• Subway Advertisements  problem solving, identifying relevant information and posing questions

• Subway Shapes geometry, identifying shapes