How Can I Help My Child At Home?
It can be difficult to know how to help your child build his/her math skills. The most important thing to remember is that children need a strong foundation of number sense in order to comprehend higher order math skills. So, what is this? The Scholastic website provides a great explanation:
Children with strong number sense think flexibly and fluently about numbers. They can:
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Visualize and talk comfortably about numbers.
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Take numbers apart and put them back together in different ways
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Compute mentally — solving problems in their heads instead of using a paper and pencil.
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Relate numbers to real-life problems
In addition to the resources I post, you can click on any of the links to the right to find tools to help your child develop his/her number sense. Have fun!
Links
To use Khan Academy, first, create an account for your child. This will automatically link you to my classroom page. Here's how:
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Click on the link above.
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Enter your class code and press “Add”.
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Class code: ATCC9PH2
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If you don’t already have an account, press, "Create a new account”. Enter your child's date of birth, then sign up using Google, your school email, or by creating a username.
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Enter your grade and course. Now you’re ready to start learning!
How Many Ways
Here is an example of your children's work that shows their number sense. In this example students are showing how many different ways numbers can be expressed. We do this exercise at least once a week. Students choose a 2-digit number and are given 10 minutes to show me how many ways they can represent their number. If you look at the answers to these equations, you can see that some students are representing the number 82, some are representing 75, and some are representing 58. There are so many different ways to show these numbers!