Summer Math Help

Looking for ideas to help your child this summer with his/her Math skills?  Check out these fun, easy ways to do just that!

• Kentucky’s Summer Math Challenge is a free math skills maintenance program based on grade-level standards that help prepare students for college and careers. The target audience is students who have just completed grades 1-7.  The program runs June 20-July 29. Parents will receive daily emails with fun activities and links to educational resources.  Just Click Here to register your child for the emails.

• The Kentucky Numeracy Project has an array of resources designed just for families that will reinforce math skills.  There are fun math games and printables, online activities, articles, book ideas, and links to websites that will support your child in the area of math.  Click here to check out all that KNP has to offer!

Befriend math! Be open to new perspectives and ask questions.

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.  If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."  -Zig Ziglar

Sometimes we just have find the right connection to understand a concept - even if it's cookies!

Building Number Sense

Card games aren't just for grown-ups!  Any card or board game that requires your child to manipulate and think about numbers strategically will build number sense and improve your child's mental math. So...what does that mean?  PLAY card or board games with your child each day.  Get them talking about the numbers and have fun!!

Happy Thanksgiving! I count it a blessing to work with some AMAZING math students everyday!

We can't remediate based on "he missed question 4."  We have to look deeper to understand  the mistakes children are making.  How did your children/students solve the problem?  What strategy did they use? Did they use a higher level of thinking beyond the standard algorithm?  Could they apply mental math to the same problem?