19th October 2012
Do you feel unsure about teaching your child maths? Your may be surprised to know that your child may pick up your anxiety. So here are 5 tips to help you approach maths with confidence.
1. Happily Keystage 1 allows you to teach maths in a hands on way. Engage your child as fully as possible in the process by using practical aids. Eg if you want to introduce the idea of a fraction, keep it simple. Take a cereal packet, mark and cut out circle. Let your child cut it into 4 equal pieces. This is a demonstration of quarters!
2. KEEP IT SIMPLE DON'T OVERCOMPICATE THINGS, it's all new information for your child.
3 GIVE YOUR CHILD TIME TO DIGEST THE CONCEPT.
4.Give some more practice by REPEATING the same idea with a cake for example or other objects such as cup cakes, nuggets or toys. Children are often keen to ensure these are divided up fairly.
5.Later on you can write it down as a fraction on a little whiteboard that you can keep handy in the kitchen.
10 minutes a day of your attention is invaluable. Most importantly,if you enjoythe activity so will your child. Watch your childs face light up as the idea you are introducing 'clicks'.
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