Fractions
Pose simple fraction number stories for your child to solve. Encourage them to draw a picture and explain how they solved it. Example: You order a whole pizza. You eat 1/2. Your brother eats 1/4. Who eats more? How do you know?
Discuss ways to cut a rectangular casserole, circular pizza or similar food to feed various numbers of people so that each person gets an equal portion. Have your child draw a picture to show their thinking or take a picture and share!
Multiplication and Division
Pose equal sharing situations. Encourage your child to act out the situation usings cards, pennies or drawing out the situation. Example: 3 friends equally share 39 baseball cards. How many cards does each child get? Example of thinking...I know 3 x 10= 30. Then there are 9 cards left over and 3x3=9 so each child gets 10 + 3= 13. Each child gets 13 cards.
Ask your child to find factor pairs of a given number and say the resulting multiplication sentence. For example, 20. 4 x5=20, so 4 and 5 are a factor pair of 20.
Provide your child with problems that have missing factors for division and multiplication practice. Example: 6 groups of how many forks would equal 18 forks?
Conceptual Place Value
Counting forward and backward by 10’s starting at a number other than 10 and going past 100 (this is extremely helpful with multi digit addition and subtraction)
Ie. 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, 74, 84, 94, 104, 114
Ie. 112, 102, 92, 82, 72, 62, 52, 42, 32, 22
When you are at a store or restaurant, tell your child the total amount of the bill (in dollar amounts only) and have your child round it to the nearest 10 and nearest 100.
Addition and Subtraction
Ask your child what comes right before a number AND what comes right after a number(within the range of 100)
Ask your child what is 2 more than a number AND what is two less than a number (within the range of 100)
Fact practice
Practice addition and subtraction extension facts
6+7=13 13-7=6
60+70=130 23-7=16
600+700=1300 53-7=46
Encourage your child to use mental strategies to solve multi-digit addition and subtraction. Ask students to explain their thinking and discuss the most efficient strategy (it's NOT always the standard algorithm)
398+202
300+200=500 398+2=400
98 + 2=100 400+200=600
500+100=600
Structuring Numbers
(combining and partitioning WITHOUT counting)
Choose a number in the range of 20 and ask your child two different ways to make that number.
For example: 16
8 + 8 15+1 10+6
****Encourage students to shift to find additional addends --> 8+8 shift to 7+9
Number Identification
Have your child locate a multi-digit number in the newspaper or other parent approved location (grade 2: number less than 10,000, grade 3: number less than 100,000, grade 4: number less than 1,000,000) Have your child say or read the number.