It’s easy to find fun, everyday ways to boost your child’s maths performance because maths is such a huge part of everyday life!  Read our tips to find out how you and your child can have fun with maths.

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1.  Baking, cooking, even making a pizza – the preparation of food raises awareness of ‘bigger or smaller’, teaches your child about measures and can be used to introduce fractions, conversions and ratio.  More on measures here.

2.  Shopping – from, “choose me five apples,” for early learners to, “find me the cheapest washing powder,” for older children, a shopping trip can provide great fun with maths.  Why not ask your child to weigh fruit and vegetables on the big scales: what child could resist?

3.  Bus or train journeys – the ability to read a bus or train timetable uses lots of maths skills.  Challenge your child to work out expected journey times.  S/he will need a good awareness of time for this.

4.  Handling data is a big part of maths.  Why not help your child to record how long the journey to school takes each day for a week.  The results could then be presented in a bar chart, line graph or even a pie chart.

5.  Finally, what could be better than maths that gets your housework done?  Take two boxes: challenge your young child to fill one with five objects smaller than a tennis ball, and the other one with five objects bigger than a tennis ball.  You can also use the ten objects to practise number bonds up to ten.

For more help with maths, please visit our useful links page,  or contact us to discuss your requirements.  We are the leading maths tutors in Urmston, Stretford, Flixton and Davyhulme and we offer a free, no obligation assessment.  Call us now on 0161 748 3912 and find out today why we’re better.