Help Your Child with Maths through:
- participating in after-school parent/child programs such as Family Maths, Family Science;
-engaging with your children appropriate family games, puzzles, experiments, designing and model building activities that use a variety of mathematics, science and technology skills;
--discussing regularly with your children their classroom activities, and listening carefully to their explanations of what has been learned;
-providing time, a place and encouragement for doing homework assignments;
- encouraging your children to persist when the work becomes difficult; not to expect parents or tutors to do the work for them;
- participating in parent-teacher conferences;
-taking advantage of opportunities to visit classes;
-celebrating with your children the many small successes in their learning;
- encouraging and expecting them to be able to do/solve the problems/activities.
Parents, schools and the community need to do all they can to ensure that our children are leaving school with a positive attitude to mathematics.
We do not accept that it is socially acceptable to say ?l am no good at maths?.
Family Maths Charitable Trust
Post: PO Box 33 1591 Takapuna New Zealand
Tel: 09 445 8312 Fax: 09 445 8472
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
www.familymaths.org.nz
On this website there is information on Family Maths, newsletters, courses and super little maths challenges fopr the whole family. This is an example:
TRIHEX
Why: To investigate game strategies
Equipment: Playing board 10 counters (5 blue, 5 Red)
How:
? Players take turns putting a counter of their own colour on a cell on the board.
? The first player to get three counters, of their own colour, in a straight line is the winner.
Think:
Can you find a winning strategy?
Are there some cells better to use than others?
Does the player playing first have a greater chance of winning?
Is this a fair game?
