Helping Children Become Mathematically Powerful

Required Fluencies

Board games offer a variety of math review.
Students can use dice, dominoes or cards to review math facts. Check out these Solitaire Games and Eureka Math Card Games.
Puzzles - put together a traditional puzzle, solve Sudoku puzzles, Greg Tang Tangy Tuesdays and Wordy Wednesdays, Ken Ken Puzzles and Logic Puzzles.

Involve counting and numbers in everyday activities.
Grab some sidewalk chalk and Play Hop Scotch or try this fun Up and Down game.
Setting the table helps build spatial sense and reinforces 1 to 1 correspondence (for example: "If I have 5 people, I need 5 plates and 5 forks".
Encourage your child to count past 100.
Practice skip counting. Click HERE for resources, including a skip counting book.

Help your child recognize and name coins, know their values, and count a pile of coins under $1.00.
Older children can help make change and find coins that make a specified amount (for example: How many ways can you make 25 cents?).
Have your children participate in planning a budget for an activity.
Estimate the grocery bill.

Review the days of the week, months of the year, seasons, minutes in an hour and hours in a day.
At various times of the day, ask your child to read an analog clock.
Schedule activities (for example: "If you need to complete 4 activities, how much time will you need?").
Calculate elapsed time: (example: "If we need to leave the house at 10:00 and it is now 9:30, how long until we leave?).

Cooking involves following step-by-step instructions, fractions, volume, cups, teaspoons, etc.
Try doubling or halving a recipe.
If you have a garden, make a chart to record the date and measure the height of several plants. Make a bar graph for each plant. Compare the heights of the plant, is one plant taller than another? How much taller?
Measure the temperature outside. Record in a chart or make a bar graph.
Check out Mr. Zink's Summer Measurement Opportunities