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 snowperson 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.
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The Ontario Ministry of Education recently released information for families aboutFocusing on the Fundamentals of Math. You can access this information at https://math.thelearningexchange.ca/training/provincial-math-training-learning-modules/parents2/
