Winter Math
Winter break is right around the corner! This is a great
opportunity to take time with your child and connect math to the real world.
Below are some ideas that will help get you started:
- Grocery shopping can involve
money, budgeting, estimating, adding, subtracting, and measuring
- Cooking can involve weighing,
measuring, ordering, estimating, adding, and multiplying
- Organizing for a party can mean
matching numbers of people to plates, cutlery, area of tables, ordering
food, and seating arrangements
- Going on a trip by car or plane
involves time, distance, budgeting, speed, comparing various routes, and
shape scavenger hunts
- Completing a half finished
symmetrical design using playdough (e.g., half a butterfly, tree)
- Building a snowman can involve
measuring, spatial reasoning, and estimating
These ideas will help your child see the importance of math in
their everyday lives through fun and interactive ways.
The Ontario Ministry of Education recently released information
for families about Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math. You can
access this information at https://math.thelearningexchange.ca/training/provincial-math-training-learning-modules/parents2/
