Ideas+for+Parents


 * //__How Parents Can Help__//**


 * Pointing out 2-digit numbers to their children, such as house numbers and page numbers in books, magazines, and newspapers, and reading the numbers correctly, such as “thirty-two”
 * Playing games in which their children have opportunities to count on to find a running total. For example, if a marker is at 25 points and a 6 is rolled, the parent models counting on by saying, “26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31”
 * Relating to their children the relative size of numbers, such as comparing a package with 30 cookies to a package with 24 and saying “30 is more than 24”
 * Providing opportunities for their children to divide a region such as a cake (round and rectangular) into halves, fourths, and other simple fractions
 * Counting coins of the same type in front of their children, such as, counting 5 dimes as “10, 20, 30, 40, 50
 * Counting coins in front of their children to show them how to group to count in order to find the value. For example, “3 quarters and 2 dimes is 25, 50, 75, 85, 95”
 * Deliberately pointing out to their children the parallel between 10 pennies making 1 dime and 10 dimes making a dollar
 * Using fraction language in terms of objects with their children, such as, “Let’s use half of the green cups and half of the blue ones.”
 * Using simple ration language with their children, such as “2 out of 3 are apples” when looking at 2 apples and 1 banana
 * Pointing out 3-digit numbers to their children, such as street and apartment numbers, numbers in newspapers articles and prices. They should read the numbers aloud and correctly such as, “Our apartment number is five hundred twenty-seven”, not “five two seven” or five hundred AND twenty-seven