In this article, we are going to give you tips on how to make math fun for your kids. You can take the information and use it to increase your child’s math skills 30 minutes a day. Although most of the games are 30 minutes, you may find yourself doing it for an hour. Kids love to have fun and we’re going to give them what they are looking for.
Rapid Kids’ Mathematics
Kids interested in mathematics will love Rapid Math because it requires competition, speed, and accuracy. This game helps students become masters of basic math fundamentals such as multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Kids of all ages can participate in Rapid Math.
A minimum of four players are needed (one answering questions/one providing flashcards). Each player has one partner which will use math equations on their flash cards to answer math problems. There should be 100 flashcards per team.
The whole deck must be completed before the game ends. For instance, the child must understand and answer an equation no matter how many times it appears in the deck. Every time he or she gives an incorrect answer, the flashcard is placed back in the deck for the remainder of the game.
Why is Rapid Math a great way to teach your kids mathematics?
Parents can use Rapid Math as a game to encourage their child’s to seek knowledge. For instance, adding small prizes such as extra television time, recess, or a fun day at the park would make a child want to learn more to earn the prizes. The psychological and emotional impact of a job well-done keeps kids coming back to earn more.
Rapid Math can be an essential tool to ensure your child remains sharp in all areas of math. Parents can adjust the levels of difficulty from basic math to algebra; start your child’s academic future in the right direction by participating in Rapid Math to make learning fun. Other games are available for Grades K-6, but Rapid Math is the most effective in developing kids’ aptitudes for higher learning skills.
By: Kyle Taylor
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Kids’ Mathematics – How to Make it Fun 30 Minutes a Day
January 28th, 2010Ged Teaching, One Room Schoolhouse
November 11th, 2009Ged Teaching, One Room Schoolhouse
In the evening the literacy classroom is full of expectant students. They seek to put a future GED mathematics test behind them. The teacher, once again, faces the task of teaching for the GED math test. No one said it would not be easy. All of this sounds easy until faced with actual numbers.
The counting numbers and values
Place value of numbers to the right and left of the decimal point.
Addition subtraction multiplication division
Rounding up and rounding down a number
What happens if the math skill is not present in the student? If a student doesn’t know the value of the number 3? A student can’t add 3 + 2 = ? These questions help define the challenges of students and teachers. Yep, the teacher must teach the information above. It is the interplay of two simple but old questions.
What does the student know?
What is the student required to know?
This is the basis by which to conduct a class or teach information. The classroom of students are not all at the same level of math skills. A teacher, really a mentor, must take each student from question 1 up to question 2. Even if the teacher can teach math, knowing math is not the same as teaching math. English may be a second language for a student. So a teacher must:
Diagnose the student
Use appropriate teaching skills
Teach with memory aids
Evaluate a student’s performance
Enhance student’s worth, skill and respect
Granted these are really simple steps that a teacher wants to use to reach the goals. Can you see the complex interplay of mentor and student? The dance that both engage in to enable skills transfer and understanding? In chaos there is order and understanding.
The nail that sticks up out of the floor is hammered! Will the stresses of learning and using math information lead the student to decide to fail? Some students pay a high price for changing or seeing the world differently from their peers or culture. GED education is not a one size fits all for every student.
In a GED class there are multiple ways a student or teacher can fail. Each student must be motivated by the teacher or mentor. The teacher must be flexible, aware of their students’ problems and leading them towards the goal. Multi-tasking seems to be a trait for those who teach.
Hang in there as we briefly cover info on math. Students need to know fractions,
ratios, algebra, geometry, mathematical rules, mean, mode, median, and the metric system. Students should comprehend above and how to solve math problems. The ideal classroom will be the one in which student demonstrates:
How they can store information in their minds.
That they can recall and use the stored information.
That they can do analysis, integration, synthesis and processing of information;
They understand test questions types, test strategies, and test logic.
That they can perform at or above the test standard.
A GED classroom often contains adults and teenagers together. Learning difficulties in students through physical and or psychological reasons are more prevalent in our students. Our students must change their outlook on learning. Buy into the belief that they too may be successful. One constant in their life is failure. Teachers attempt to turn this around and repair the damage of the concept of failure.
The poor GED mentor or teacher must be energetic because energy attracts, grabs and pulls a student out of their current orbits. If you want to move a strand of cooked spaghetti in a straight line you pull not push it.
Students will respond to a teacher’s care and expectations if the teacher is bold enough to ignore the students’ excuses. It’s alright to remind a student that what they thought was not possible is indeed proven possible.
A lot is learned in a GED math class besides math for both the mentor and student.
By: Ronald Newton
Learn Math Bingo Games
October 30th, 2009Mathematics is that academic discipline that holds the most valuable place in our day to day lives be it organizing business or tax accounts or the mundane actives like managing the household finances. In a nutshell, teachers and parents are well aware of the value of mathematics in their child’s life. But to make the kids practice the same concepts of math again and again becomes a little taxing at times.
Thanks to math Bingo games, teaching math is no longer the difficult challenge it once used to be. There is an assorted range of math Bingo games on the Internet that covers all the concepts of this subject. The moment you key in the words ‘math Bingo games’ in any search engine, numerous Bingo sites will pop up offering math bingo games and facility to download it free without or with sign up.
Math Bingo games are very easy to play. Just click on any mathematical concept that you want to Bingo with. For instance, multiplication, addition, subtraction and division. You can also select math Bingo games according to the level of schooling of your child namely, kindergarten, first grade, second grade and so on.
Math Bingo games use regular cards for game play. But, instead of the random numbers on the card, there are numbers that are the result of various mathematical calculations. Let’s look at the Match Bingo game that shows a multiplication formula of 5X5=X. Your kid needs to calculate the value of ‘X’ and locate it on the card.
Teachers and parents can also create the cards for math Bingo games through the bingo card generator online and distribute them among the students in the classroom, at the tutorials or at home. Isn’t this an excellent ‘play and learn’ method to teach kids the basics of mathematics?
By: Jeffrey Mcmahon
