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Everyday MathIdeas for real life.Have your kids ever complained about doing their math and commented, "Everyday math isn't like this!" Give them what they are asking for! Here are some ideas to get you started. Younger students: Card games. Keeping score is a great math lesson, especially when you are teaching your 6 year old how to add negative numbers. Lol! Or, you can deal cards to each player. Players add up the cards in their hands. Highest hand wins. Start with 2 cards each and progress upwards. Play store. Keep a jar with real money especially for this game. You can practice writing money amounts on price tags and practice adding when someone buys more than one item. Cooking. An all time fractions favorite! Science experiments which require recording of data. Even something as simple as graphing the weather for the day with a bar graph. Start word problems, but don’t call them that. Call them “mysteries” to solve. Get busy. How many jumping jacks can you do in 15 seconds, 30 seconds, etc. to teach the concept of time. Buy your child a watch and ask THEM what time it is!
Ideas for using higher math in real life are hard. Some of the ideas for younger students will work for older ones as well. As far as just regular math in real life, try… Filling out tax forms. Builiding a scale model of something (not from a kit) or do a scale drawing of your house or yard. Plan a trip start to finish, complete with budget. (That should be interesting with the rising gas prices.)
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