Parent Handout Fun With Math at Home

Help parents connect math to their child’s everyday world with this hand out. This packet makes a great tool to distribute at Parent/Teacher conferences, Family Math Night and other school gatherings.

Topics covered in this hand out include:

1.) “Card Attack”, "Go Fish" and “Concentration”, three card games that make practicing math facts fun.

2.) Grocery Store Math Games:

*MATCHING- a math game involving adding decimals

*ESTIMATE- this game provides practice for measurement, computation, and conversion of units

*TALK ABOUT IT-recognizing geometric shapes

*GUESS-estimating totals

3.) “Math on the Go”- a variety of games using the numbers on license plates to practice computation, place value, and display data