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This document provides tips and activities for parents to encourage the retention of math skills over the summer break from school. It suggests bringing math into everyday activities like cooking, gardening, shopping, and games. Specific activities mentioned include estimating quantities in recipes, measuring objects, playing games that involve counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication, and comparing analogue and digital clocks. It also proposes challenges like building structures from straws. The goal is to make math fun and present in daily life outside of a classroom setting.

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Parent Brochure

This document provides tips and activities for parents to encourage the retention of math skills over the summer break from school. It suggests bringing math into everyday activities like cooking, gardening, shopping, and games. Specific activities mentioned include estimating quantities in recipes, measuring objects, playing games that involve counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication, and comparing analogue and digital clocks. It also proposes challenges like building structures from straws. The goal is to make math fun and present in daily life outside of a classroom setting.

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Wherever you can, bring math http://www.edu.gov.on.

ca/eng/literacy
into daily life: BBQs or numeracy/parentGuideNumEn.pdf
gatherings
Cook with your estimate ratios of
child it involves food/plate to
weighing, people, needs, Links to other ideas for kids and teens:
measuring, area of tables, cost http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/math/
ordering, of supplies, etc. schoolleader/ideas_for_school_leaders.
estimating, html
adding,
multiplying. Gardening
involves
Discuss summer activities using the measuring,
calendar (days, dates) and time. counting, From your ASDW Numeracy Team
watering, area,
Home projects estimate, measure, division. June 2017
multiply.
Links to Government of NB Math
Math at Home
Parent Brochures, which contain book
titles and links to internet resources: Tips for Parents
Road trips to encourage summer
Grade 5:
retention of math
Talk about distance, speed, estimate http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/
concepts
length of the trip, gas usage, Departments/ed/pdf/K12/curric/Math/M
budgeting, evaluating various athParentBrochure-Grade5.pdf
routes, license plate games
This brochure contains some tips to
(add/multiply numbers on the Grade 4:
help your child retain their math ability
plates), etc. http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/
over the summer.
Departments/ed/pdf/K12/curric/Math/M
Restaurants and shopping involves athParentBrochure-Grade4.pdf
money, number identification,
What is summer slide?
estimating, adding, subtracting, Grade 3: Over the summer, children get out of
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/ regular math practice, and tend to
division.
Departments/ed/pdf/K12/curric/Math/M lose some of their ability and skill.
athParentBrochure-Grade3.pdf

Brochure activity ideas from:


- Do we have enough - Money - Have your child count your
pillows/chairs/etc. for our house change. Make sure they count it
guests? Go count them. largest value to smallest (quarters
first). Play What are my coins? (I
- Card games Play cribbage (counts have $1.75 What coins could I have?
to make 15); Number Shuffle Adding What are the fewest number of coins I
(each player draws two cards and could have to make $1.75? I have only
adds them together, player with the ten coins totaling $1.75 so what could
Math is everywhere: highest number gets all the cards, they be?)
player with most cards wins); Number
We are doubling this recipe. How Shuffle Subtracting (same, but
much more of these ingredients will subtract the numbers, player with the
we need? lowest total takes the cards).
- Use a tape measure (in cm) to
Do we have enough plates and - Number cube games Roll two measure the height of each family
utensils for all the guests coming? number cubes and member. Find the difference between
add/subtract/multiply them, highest or each person, and the difference
We are fertilizing the lawn. This bag lowest number can win a jelly bean between the tallest and shortest
covers 3 square meters. How many each round. people in the family.
bags will we need?
- Pretend number 8 is broken on the Shape and Space
This store is selling the game you calculator. What numbers could you
Activities
want for 20% off of $27.00. That store type in to get 18 to show (e.g. 20-2,
has it for $19.99. Where should we 15 + 3, 3 x 6, etc.)? Play with different - Convert kg to grams when cooking;
shop? broken numbers. calculate how long dinner needs to
cook and what time it will be ready.
Number Strand Activities
- Guess my number 20 questions (Is - Talk about wanting half of a piece of
cake. Can one half be bigger than the - Have your child tell you the time
it odd? Even? A whole number? A
other? using an analogue clock. Equate this
decimal? Divisible by 3? One digit?)
to a digital clock.
- When grocery shopping, have your
child round each amount up and keep - When given a trip distance in km,
a running total. calculate how many meters that would
- Estimate how many tomatoes are be. If building something or moving
needed to make 2 cups of diced furniture, measure your materials in
- Use skip counting to count objects or
tomatoes for the spaghetti sauce. Do meters, cm or mm. Convert your
money. Count them by 2s, 5s, 10s or
with carrots, celery, etc. number to a different unit of measure.
25s.
- Ask your child to help sort laundry,
nails, cutlery, etc. - Have your child collect data on what
- Have your child measure plant your guests would like to drink, or
growth in the garden. How much does have on the BBQ
it grow each day? Estimate how much
it will grow in a week. - Discuss a current event your child is
interested in. Talk about first and
Structure second hand sources of information,
Challenge data reliability (fake news)
Provide straws,
tape, etc. and
challenge your
child to build the
tallest free-
standing structure,
Picture from How
to Build a Straw or one that can
Tower by Jimmie support the weight
Lanley of a tennis ball.
What shape base is
the sturdiest?

Patterns & Relations


Activities

- Ask your child to help plant the


garden following a pattern (colours of
flowers or tomato plants, stones
around the garden)

- Make a growing pattern with


toothpicks and have your child keep it
going.

Stats & Probability


Activities

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