The Math Education Blog for Parents

The Math Education Blog helps parents answer these questions...

• Do you know WHY your child needs to learn math?
• Do you think your child needs a harder (or an easier!) math class?
• Do you know how to do math remediation or enrichment in the home?

Stay tuned to the Math Education Blog for Parents to discover what's important in math education and what is simply curricular fluff! Learn what You, the parent, can do to make your child a more successful math student.

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Aug 24, 2010, Math Tips for Back-to-School Readiness

Here are math tips you can use to get your child back-to-school and well prepared for his math classes.

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Jun 18, 2010, Triangles

What did the complimentary angle say to the isoceles triangle? Nice legs

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Feb 16, 2010, Preschool math games like Thomas the Tank Engine teach a variety of premath skil

Preschool math games like Thomas the Tank Engine Wooden trains are a fun way to provide preschool math skills.

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Feb 12, 2010, Try these elementary math activities with your third, fourth or fifth grader.

Here are some great elementary math activities you can do with your kids to help strengthen math skills through everyday interactions at home.

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Feb 12, 2010, Help your child learn percents, a key topic in middle school math problems.

When you help your child learn percents, you are assuring success with a key topic in the 7th grade math curriculum and an important skill in every day math.

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Feb 10, 2010, Geometry jokes to make you laugh and share with your students.

Here are fun geometry jokes to lighten up your day. Good math jokes can lighten up a geometry lesson.

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Feb 4, 2010, Maths Games on Internet

My son (grade 2) is usually more keen to complete his homework if he gets 15 mins or so of maths/educational games at the end. He likes the games at sites

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Jan 25, 2010, Dividing fractions is a vital skill for middle school math and high school math.

Dividing fractions is an important middle school and high school math skill. Its also an important life skill that all kids should know.

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Jan 24, 2010, Multiplying fractions is a vital math education skill.

Multiplying fractions is an important skill for all of middle school and high school math. Its also an important life skill all children should master.

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Jan 24, 2010, Subtracting fractions is a vital math skill, and life skill, for your child.

Subtracting fractions is a very important skill for your child to master for success in middle school and high school math. Its also a very important life skill.

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Jan 24, 2010, Adding fractions is an important part of learning applications of fractions.

Mastering adding fractions is a skill that will enable your child to do a wide variety of arithmetic and algebraic problems, as well as an important life skill.

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Jan 10, 2010, Making patterns with matchbox cars

When my son was 3 years old, I noticed he liked to line up all his matchbox cars. He would spend a long time making really straight lines. One day I

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Jan 7, 2010, School doesn't do that.

School doesn't do that, that was the answer my mother got when she found out that I was dramatically failing the tests for the times tables. What

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Jan 7, 2010, Counting with coloured blocks

When I went to school in the 1960's we had coloured* blocks that represented one through to 10. We used those blocks in almost every simple maths

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Jan 5, 2010, Times Tables and The Tea Set

It's funny you have this section on your website because this is one of my favorite childhood memories and I've retold it to my children. When I was

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Jan 5, 2010, Snack First

I find that my children are STARVING by the time they get home from school, so they have an afternoon snack before homework. I try to do something

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Jan 5, 2010, 20 minutes on - 5 minutes off

When kids have a lot of homework to do, several hours can be overwhelming to think about...we made a 20 minutes on and 5 min snack break part of the

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Jan 4, 2010, Get math help! Parents can get tips from other parents for math issues.

Parents can get math help and tips for math success by reading ideas other parents have shared.

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Jan 4, 2010, Preschool math activities done with parents are fun! Share your ideas here.

Get lots of ideas for preschool math activities to do at home! Share your own ideas and read more great math games and counting activities other parents do with their preschoolers.

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Dec 31, 2009, Get free multiplication activities worksheets to help memorize the times tables.

Get free multiplication activities and practice worksheets to help your child memorize the times table and master third grade math problems.

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