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5 Practical Tips to Boost your Child’s Mental Math

October 9, 2015 26 Comments

What is your child’s favorite subject in school? When I asked several kids, most answered Science and English. My son too extremely loves Science followed by Araling Panlipunan. Let’s face it that Math is a tough subject. Even during the times that I studied in school, it is usually the subject where you can see low grades.  My concern as a parent is on how my kids can cope up with Math in an interesting way.  So, I came up with 5 Practical Tips to boost your Child’s Mental Math that we encounter in our daily life.

Practical Tips to Boost your Child’s Mental Math

My son Jelvin is counting his savings before heading to the bank

 

In today’s generation, we are thankful that there are multiple ways to help our child in improving their mental skills in different areas. With Math learning or enrichment center, I heard a lot of good feedback from parents who enrolled their kids in Kumon and Singapore Math. When I attended their parent seminar, I actually learned some tips and I applied it to my son. Although my seven-year-old child is not yet enrolled to this center, we are doing some in my list of 5 Practical Tips to boost your Child’s Math Skills.

5 Practical Tips to Boost your Child’s Mental Math

  1. Daily Math practice through worksheets.This is the basic concept that I learned from Kumon. A repetition of solving math problems at a given time limit. I usually make a worksheet for my son depending on their current lessons covered. If I am running out of time, I download some worksheets at http://www.math-drills.com.  Sometimes we use Math window card. Answering worksheets may sound boring to your child but, hey mom! It is very effective. Practice makes them do well in numbers. The time limit encourages them to think and answer fast.Another tip is to give them a reward after they complete it.

    Child writing and Lego activity

    Child writing and Lego activity

  2. Letting your child involve in shopping for groceries. Supermarket is one of the best places for kids to explore with different words and numbers. The moment you enter the supermarket, you’ll start searching for sections, numbers, food labels, and prices of each item. I normally ask my son for help in searching a certain section. I let my child pick items for his healthy baon that would fit in a budget I set for him.He would mentally try to compute. Then, I’ll suggest or give him tips to add or subtract fast. As he gets familiar with money, prices, and totals, he also learns how to spend it wisely.
  3. Savings in a bank. I think saving in a bank at an earlier age is one powerful way to start building your money. Here in the Philippines, children age seven and above who can read and write can legally open savings and time deposit accounts, deposit and withdraw, using their own names and signatures, according to Presidential Decree No. 734, issued in 1975.For younger children, parents can open an In-Trust-For (ITF) accounts for them.Because hubby and I were talking about the advantage of having a trust fund, we are surprised when my son asked “Mommy, Do I have a trust fund?”. Kids are really smart nowadays. It is important to explain to your child the purpose of saving in a bank and the importance of money. Before heading to the bank, let your kid count the paper bills followed by the coins. I suggest you assign a money-box for his savings. Then, let him classify the money and get the sum. As your child sees his savings increasing, he gets smarter in adding large numbers.
  4. Letting them understand how to earn money. When my child knew how husband and I earned money for our living, he understands its significance. Subsequently, he thought of selling something that he likes. During the summer vacation, when I make fruit ice pops, he told me that he wanted to sell some to earn and save. He is already imagining of the price and how much he is going to earn. Although we were not able to sell fruit ice candy, I consider it another practical way to boost our child’s math skills. They can be young entrepreneurs. From the simple Ice candy selling or the popular Lemonade stand during vacation, it will surely enhance their mathematical ability through inventory, money handling, and giving change to the buyers. It is also a good way of interacting to different people.
  5. Cooking, baking or eating together. We may not notice that a simple cooking or baking activity is a practical way our child expand his math ability. The measurement that we do in cooking/baking preparation is good enough for our child’s mental math practice. When eating together, we tend to divide the food so that every member of the family can have a part. This is an easy approach for division or multiplication.

 

Setting the calendar and time management are other math-related activities. At home my son has his own calendar where he marks the current date and important events. From there, he counts the days left for an event that we are approaching (school or family events). We never want to miss an important event so we also teach him the value of time. There is always a right time for study, play, sleeping, and other activities.

There are countless ways that we can apply Math in our daily life. The use of the resources that you have and linking the activities that you usually do will help your child better understand and improve in Math.

How about you? Please share your thoughts… What are your Practical Tips to boost your Child’s Mental Math?

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  1. Cy Valencia says

    October 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    I agree! Practice makes perfect. I also do that to my child to hone his math skills.

    Cy Valencia

    Reply
  2. Keizylyn Mariano says

    October 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    i Already registered ….

    My Registered Name : Lorna Mariano

    Reply
  3. Charm Jumalon says

    October 9, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    My son is only four year old and only knows how to count 1-20. But as soon as he turns 7, I plan to enroll him either in Kumon or Eye Level to further enhance his love for Math and numbers =)

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 10, 2015 at 9:14 pm

      Hi Mommy Charm, Good luck with your plan ?

      Reply
  4. Nilyn Matugas says

    October 10, 2015 at 7:00 am

    Thanks for all the tips! I’m going to need them when my one year old gets a little older. 😀

    Reply
  5. juvy ann says

    October 10, 2015 at 9:31 am

    These are real practical stuffs to teaching kids math appreciation. Bringing my kids to do grocery however needs a lot more work on (you know what I mean).

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 10, 2015 at 9:13 pm

      Hi Juvy Ann,

      Yes, we know kids are moody and most are fidgety ?

      Reply
  6. gerilen polon says

    October 10, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    I signed up as Gerilen Polon! Thanks for sharing this.
    I’ve been in search for online community for moms and its nice to know that Unilab cooked up something for moms and kids. <3

    Reply
  7. Mhaan Arambulo-delos santos says

    October 10, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    Will keep these in mind kapag malaki na baby ko. Thank you for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  8. Rowena Wendy Lei says

    October 11, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    Will check out the hey mom community! 😀

    Reply
  9. EINz says

    October 11, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    After the 2-week free trial in Kumon, I decided to enroll my 2nd grader in their Math Program. He still at the moment of enjoying his everyday achievement of a perfect score, and I think this is a good start for him to encourage the love of math.

    We definitely need an ‘intervention’ from learning center like this, with regards to establishing his study habits. I do hope to stay in the program for years.

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 16, 2015 at 11:34 am

      COngrats Mommy Einz, At least you’ve already started. In my case, I wish you enroll my son next year. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Hershey Ann Gercio says

    October 12, 2015 at 4:26 am

    I registered.
    Name: Hershey Ann Gercio

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 16, 2015 at 11:33 am

      Hi Hershey , Thank you.

      Reply
  11. Maan says

    October 12, 2015 at 5:44 am

    These are valuable tips! I used to work in Kumon and daily practice is really s must in mastering Math. Even I as a teacher learns by checking the sheets!

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 16, 2015 at 11:35 am

      Hi Mommy Maan,

      The practice sheets makes the children more familiar with Math 🙂 .

      Reply
  12. Kat Rodriguez says

    October 12, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Great tips. My daughter is turning 2 this month and she loves counting, right now just up to 10, but everywhere we go, she would point at things saying what their colors are, and counting them. I hope this is a sign that she’s gonna love math, haha.

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 16, 2015 at 11:37 am

      Hi Mommy Kat,

      Good to know that your daughter at an early age is showing her learning signs about colors and numbers. 🙂

      Reply
  13. sarah tirona says

    October 13, 2015 at 10:47 am

    thank you@ my daughter needs help in math.

    Reply
  14. sherry ann gole cruz says

    October 15, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    thanks for sharing,i registered ,annkharize as my username 🙂

    Reply
  15. MrsMartinez says

    October 17, 2015 at 8:02 am

    I remember at a very young age, I was already an entrepreneur. I had a piece of notebook where I listed down the money I earn and spent. I was selling ice candy in my dad’s factory 😉

    Xoxo
    MrsMartinez

    Reply
  16. Ma. Clarice Lao says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Thank you for the wonderful tips on how to boost mental math. I also discourage them to use calculators and their fingers when trying to solve a Math problem. Playing chess also helps. 🙂

    My registered name is: Ma. Clarice Lao

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      October 21, 2015 at 10:20 pm

      Thank you for registering.

      Reply
  17. maricris abarabar says

    November 10, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    Registered!
    Maricris T. Abarabar
    Thanks for the effective tips , I can apply this to my 2 kids. Tamang tama nahihirapan akong turuan anak ko sa Math subject nya.

    Reply
    • Jem Alvarado says

      November 10, 2015 at 12:53 pm

      Thank you Mommy Maricris. I am sure it the tips will help 🙂

      Reply
  18. Carol Chan says

    November 11, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    Thank you for the information! I have registered (carolchan16)

    Reply

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