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How To Develop Your Childs Math Skills

 


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Math might be a boring subject, but it's one of the most important things for kids to learn as they grow up. People don't realize how much of their lives revolve around basic math skills until they stop and think about it. So, you should work on developing your child's math skills from a young age. Understanding how to count and do basic sums will take them a long way in life. Obviously, math is boring for most people - unless your child is a natural-born accountant. Therefore, standard math lessons aren't going to be that effective. The trick is to develop their skills without making it seem like a lesson, here's what you can do:


Provide them with puzzle books

Puzzles are almost like a cheat code when it comes to teaching your children. They're brilliant as you've got learning disguised as a fun game! As you can see here https://www.pennydellpuzzles.com/logic-math/, there are plenty of logic and math puzzles you can purchase. Getting a few of these for your children will be perfect. They can pass the time by trying to work out the puzzles, while also training their brain to understand numbers and math in more detail. As a bonus, puzzle books get your children away from screens for a few hours a day too!





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Teach them through baking

Cooking is one of those things in life that requires math skills without you realizing it. So much of cooking revolves around measuring ingredients, adding things up, ratios, and so on. Thus, it is the perfect setting for a child to develop their math skills! Of course, you can always substitute baking for regular cooking, but kids will probably prefer to bake. Either way, get them involved when you're in the kitchen, making them weigh out and measure things, or giving them some sneaky sums to do involving the ingredients. As a simple example, get a carton of eggs out and tell your child that the recipe needs two eggs. They then have to pick out two from the pack - it's very low-level maths, which is perfect for toddlers. Obviously, the secondary benefit of this tip is that your child can also learn basic kitchen skills.


Take them shopping

Another real-world example of math in action! Shopping involves so much addition and subtraction that you almost can't believe it. Naturally, most of it is done for you when you pay for everything and get the receipt. However, a good game to play with your children is for them to add up all the items of shopping as you go around. Give them either a notepad to do this, or let them do it on their phone with a calculator. Then, when you pay, you can compare their total to the actual one. If they're right, maybe you give them a prize as a reward! It's a fun way to help them develop their math skills while also making the shopping trip more enjoyable



See, math doesn't have to be boring! Numeracy skills are essential for everyone, so do what you can to help your child develop from a young age. 


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