Math Is Everywhere!
From research it is clear that children are more likely to be successful learners of any subject when parents are actively involved and support their learning. Today, helping children to make the effort to learn, appreciate, and master mathematics, it is more important than ever before.
To ensure that our children are ready for high school and on track for success in college and the workforce, parents must become involved early—and stay involved over the school years. Parents must help children of all ages to see that math is everywhere!
Check back on this page each week, to find valuable resources, ideas and leanrexcercises for you and your child, provided by Eastern Michigan University and WWJ Newsradio 950.
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Reduce Anxiety For ACT
Since all Michigan students are required to take the ACT test as part of their high school requirements, it pays to help them prepare for the test well ahead of time. One way to do this is to help familiarize students with the test, to reduce test anxiety.
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Kids Need Their Fractions
Fractions are a tough concept for children to master and they provide an important basis for Algebra and other high school mathematics.
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Simple Practice For Tougher Algebra
Factoring, or being able to tell what numbers multiply together to form another number, is a key skill for algebra. But many students struggle with it, even into the high school years.
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Fun And Games For Math
The Illuminations website of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, has featured games and activities to help kids master key math concepts.
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Math Doesn't Suck
Actress Danica McKeller became famous on the television show the Wonder Years, but she went on to graduate with a degree in mathematics from UCLA, and is now an author and spokesperson for girls in math.
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Same Repetition, New Twist
One difference between the math curriculum that your children have and the one that you may have had a decade ago is the amount of drill and practice. But practice is still needed.
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Same Repetition, New Twist
One difference between the math curriculum that your children have and the one that you may have had a decade ago is the amount of drill and practice. More recent math curricula may spiral to a topic each year, reminding students what they have learned. However, many students need more practice in basic skills. Luckily, this does not need to be rows of numbers on a worksheet. Software for
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Their Math Isn't Your Math
It can be a frustrating moment for parents when they cannot help their child with homework anymore.
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Score A Touchdown In Math!
If you have a child in algebra, going to a football game may be part of the curriculum he or she needs to grasp some key concepts.
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Keeping Up The GPA
Many 9th grade students have a subtraction problem. If you have a child entering high school, sit down with him or her this fall and talk about the slide in grade that affects most 9th grade students.
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Math Pays Off!
When your kids ask you why studying mathematics is important in school, you may want to point them to a recently released list of the 15 highest paid college majors.
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Bringing Math To Life
As children are learning math, they love to practice their skills on real life problems.
Even kids just learning addition and subtraction like to see how these concepts apply to everyday situations. One way to do this and also prepare them to tackle word problems, is to do number stories.
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The World of Numbers
You can learn a lot just by looking at one number at a time, especially when you use Richard Phillips “numbers” website.
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Math is a Team Effort
One way to help your child improve in math is to have him or her help someone else, especially someone younger than they are.
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Making Math Fun
While it is a form of old school technology, using the scale at the produce section of the supermarket is a good way to help your child with fractions.
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Mastering Math
While your child may find math a challenge in school, remind him or her that math skills are tested at the high school and college level, and those without basic skills are put into remedial classes.
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Succeeding In The Housing Market
A good real life lesson in math for high school students is helping them to determine the price of housing. With the newspaper classifieds and the Internet, you can work with your student on what it will cost him or her to live on their own after high school.
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Money Management
One real life application of math for teenagers is keeping track of expenses. Most young people do not think much about how they spend their allowance or earnings from a job.
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Triangles Rule: It's a Fact
Fact triangles can help your child learn and review addition and subtraction. You make them by cutting out a series of triangles.
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Get Your Hands On Geometry
Geometry is a subject that is best learned hands-on, with paper, scissors and glue. No matter what the age of your child, they will enjoy building a soccer ball out of paper hexagons.
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Flat Is Fabulous!
A key concept for kids to grasp is dimensions -- whether something is one dimension, like a line, two dimensions, like a square, or three dimensions, like a cube. Jeff Brown’s classic childrens book "Flat Stanley" can help give your child a way to think about how different the world is if you are two dimensional.
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What's The Probability?
Kids and adults are fascinated by the chances of what may occur in the future. Probability is the study of what might happen, and what the chances are that difference events will occur. It is part of applied mathematics, and its concepts can be taught at many different grade levels.
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Daily Dose of Math
We all know it is important that kids get physical exercise every day, and that they are read to or read on their own every day. But in order to keep their math skills up, you may also want to help your child get a daily dose.
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Pokemon's Math Strategy
No matter how baffling they are for adults, the card games children play can have a positive impact on their math abilities.
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Reach For The Teach Scholarship
If your child is interested in pursuing a teaching career in mathematics, the TEACH scholarship program from the U.S. Department of Education, may provide some needed resources for education.
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Play With The Stock Market and Trades
The stock market has not been a lot of fun for adults lately, but for kids, investments are a good way to teach about the mathematics of buying, selling, profit and loss.
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Fun 'Powers of Ten' For Children
Scale is one of the most fun and important pieces of mathematics to show your child. Scale is simply a ratio. It is way to make things larger or smaller, just like the zoom on an office copy machine.
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Math: It's All In the Cards!
Games can help your child have fun and at the same time learn math.
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The Great Graph Contest
For children on any age, graphs can be fun. Graphing is a way for kids to see numbers in a new way – long rows of numbers that make little sense on a list, suddenly tell a compelling story when they are on a graph.
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Calculate Graduation Rate
A simple math exercise for yourself and your high school student is to calculate your school district’s graduation rate.
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Graphing Shapes
For middle and high school students, back to school means back to graphing.
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Math and Sports
Even if your child doesn't love taking math class, you can find activities that will engage his or her interest in the subject.
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Mental Math
Mental math is so important! It gives us the ability to reason with numbers and to get estimates when we do not have pencil or paper or when we do not need an exact answer. Try this activity out.
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The Math Curse (cont.)
In Jon Scieszka’s book, "The Math Curse," the author follows a child through the day by noting all the mathematics he or she encounters. Have students create a timeline of their morning routine in 5-minute intervals.
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Secondary High Math: Reality Check!
Did you ever wonder how much it would take to live the way you always wanted?
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Early Childhood Education - Math
The early childhood years, the time from birth through age eight, provide an opportunity for parents to help children develop skills they will use for learning throughout their lives.
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