What is the parents resources page?
The Parents Resources page links to dozens of online resources to help parents help their children. These links include online games, tutorials, simulations, and teaching tips.
How do I use the student resources page?
The Student Resources page provides many useful resources for students, including links to interactive games, web-based virtual manipulatives and tutorials, quizzes, forums, and more. With a login provided by your child's teacher, access resources to help your child with homework or brush up on your math skills.
How can I Help my Child with maths at home?
As a parent or carer, you play a vital role in how your child thinks and feels about maths. Even if it wasn’t your favourite subject when you went to school, maths is all around us. Take your child on a walk outside and ask them to collect different items that they can arrange by length.
Puzzle it out
Puzzles are great because they force kids to slow down. According to Yohance Serrant, a high school math teacher at New Roads School in Santa Monica and founder of Yo Math, puzzles are a great way for kids to “dedicate themselves to problem solving,” and it’s an activity that the entire family can do together.
Mathematicians are people
Share stories about famous mathematicians and give a behind-the-scenes glance into some of the great math stories.
Make it a game
I have a household of competitors. We can turn everyday activities into enthusiastic rivalries (bake-offs are the current source of contention). To get the competitive juices flowing around math in your home, get creative with chores by posting a visual scoring chart somewhere everyone can see.
Technology to the rescue
Instead of fighting against your kids’ attachments to their phones and computers, make effective use of these pieces of technology by refocusing their time on their screens.
More money, more math problems
Research reveals children can grasp the idea of money around ages two or three. Yikes! What’s even more fascinating is that money habits have already begun to form by age seven.
STEM Fairs
To take your math learning out of the house, consider attending STEM fairs as a family. These fairs are excellent ways to experience the benefits of math while getting some hands-on learning.
Math on the sidewalk
F resh air does wonders for the brain, and with a few chunks of sidewalk chalk, you and the family can turn your outdoor sidewalk into a stimulating classroom.
Basic Facts (Click for more information)
Helping children learn the basic facts is an important goal in the Everyday Mathematics curriculum. In this section, you can find out more about how the curriculum employs a variety of techniques to help children develop their "fact power", or basic number-fact reflexes.
Computation (Click for more information)
Everyday Mathematics recognizes that, even in the computer age, it is important to teach children how to compute "by hand". Here you can read more about how the curriculum provides all students with a variety of dependable and understandable methods of computation.
Alternative Algorithms (Click for more information)
Research has shown that teaching the standard U.S. algorithms for each of the four basic operations of arithmetic fails with large numbers of children, and that alternative algorithms are often easier for children to understand and learn.
Calculator Use (Click for more information)
In the Everyday Mathematics program, emphasis is placed on using the calculator as a tool for learning mathematics. You can read more here about how the use of calculators is incorporated to provide practice with place value and problem-solving skills in the curriculum.
Meeting Individual Needs (Click for more information)
Simply stated, the primary goal of Everyday Mathematics is to help more children learn more mathematics. This section explains how the curriculum expects higher levels of accomplishment at every grade level while also incorporating features that help make mathematics accessible to all students.
Assisting Your Child (Click for more information)
We believe it is very important to help parents become actively involved in their child's mathematical education. Here you can see some suggestions for how you can learn about the mathematics your child is studying in school, and how you can help reinforce their math learning at home.
