One of my littles hates math. Hates it! So mostly we play math games to help her understand how math works, and see some real application. Yesterday we had a math morning for school. We learned about parabolas, and creating parabolas out of right, acute, and obtuse angles. The kids drew 7 inch lines, with a number at each inch or half inch on both lines. Then they connected the number 1's, nunber 2's and so on until they had beautiful parabolas.
Next, we played The Doorbell Rang with several small people toys acting as the friends in the story and some cereal as the cookies. We read the book and acted out giving each child cookies, talking about how division works as the story progressed. Understanding how division worked definitely helped my girl.
Last, we talked about fractions by making playdough pies, and then dividing those pies into a certain number of pieces. We even took that so far as to talk about reducing fractions.
So as much as she (and I to some degree) strongly dislike math, it was a successful math morning and we all felt like it was a success!
**Update to math hate! This morning we did a shape search around the neighborhood, which got us outside, and noticing small details. The kids put tally marks next to the shapes on their shape search paper, for each shape they saw. Then we came home and made bar and line graphs to represent our findings. Next week we will add to those results and learn about circle graphs and finding the average, percentiles, etc. So another successful math day!
Next, we played The Doorbell Rang with several small people toys acting as the friends in the story and some cereal as the cookies. We read the book and acted out giving each child cookies, talking about how division works as the story progressed. Understanding how division worked definitely helped my girl.
Last, we talked about fractions by making playdough pies, and then dividing those pies into a certain number of pieces. We even took that so far as to talk about reducing fractions.
So as much as she (and I to some degree) strongly dislike math, it was a successful math morning and we all felt like it was a success!
**Update to math hate! This morning we did a shape search around the neighborhood, which got us outside, and noticing small details. The kids put tally marks next to the shapes on their shape search paper, for each shape they saw. Then we came home and made bar and line graphs to represent our findings. Next week we will add to those results and learn about circle graphs and finding the average, percentiles, etc. So another successful math day!
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