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 The Learning Exchange (Math).
To find out what your child will learn in math this year or to find other fun activities that you can do together as a family, please also visit the YRDSB Mathematics website homepage. Be sure to also try our Problem of the Month.