Games you can do at home to help your child with Maths!
Numbers are critical to everyday life. We all have to be able to add quickly, to determine
whether our change is correct, whether the restaurant has added up properly, what is ten
percent?
These games are for a range of ages and abilities. As always, if you imply the games are good
fun, the children will be tempted to join in- if you suggest this is compulsory and tedious,
they will resent the activity.
Use numbers- count your child's fingers and toes, count stairs, or birds or flower or balloons.
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Use dot to dot books to help your child learn the sequence of numbers.
Children enjoy laying the table with the right number of knives, forks, plates etc..
Encourage them to think how many more they need to make the right number.
Show number cards and check your child can read them properly.
Find 2D and 3D shapes around the house or when you are out and about.
Make a shop, with small jars or plates of interesting things with prices and take it in
turns to be shopkeeper and shopper.
Bake! Especially where it is important to measure and weigh ingredients.
Roll dice- add up the two die and do that many jumps, hops or count out that many
pennies.
Simple card games are good- pairs teaches number matching. Rummy and Whist teach
simple addition and Blackjack or Pontoon are good for adding to 21.
Dominoes helps with number matching, as well as being a very strategic game.
We also have lots of games on our school website to help your child with number!