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Grade 2 At-Home Support - Mathematics

The document provides numerous at-home activities to support mathematics learning for grade 2 students, including playing games involving counting, operations, money, and logic; doing math problems related to everyday activities like cooking, weather, and travel; and sorting/classifying real-world items to strengthen number sense and problem-solving skills. The document emphasizes developing a positive attitude towards math and reinforcing math foundations like addition and subtraction facts.

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Grade 2 At-Home Support - Mathematics

The document provides numerous at-home activities to support mathematics learning for grade 2 students, including playing games involving counting, operations, money, and logic; doing math problems related to everyday activities like cooking, weather, and travel; and sorting/classifying real-world items to strengthen number sense and problem-solving skills. The document emphasizes developing a positive attitude towards math and reinforcing math foundations like addition and subtraction facts.

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Grade 2 AT-HOME SUPPORT - MATHEMATICS: -Help children see that math is very much a part of everyday life.

Statistics in sports, the sale price of clothing, calories in food, and the amount of gas needed to travel from one city to another are evidence that math is important to us every day. -Point out that many jobs require math. Scientists, doctors, plant managers, newspaper sales, computer programmers, hardware store owners, and fast food sales people require a strong foundation in math. -Positive attitudes about math will reinforce encouragement. Your feelings will have an impact on how your children think about math and themselves as mathematicians. -Practice addition and subtraction facts 0-18 -Play games that help children develop decision-making and mental math skills. There are many games sold commercially, such as board games that involve patterns and probability. Play games from your own family traditions such as counting games/games that keep score. Try schoolyard games such as jump rope, hopscotch, and jacks. Make up games, such as: think of a number within a stated range and you try to guess the number by asking yes or no questions (ex. Is it more than 50? Is it an even number? Can you reach it by counting by 3s?). -Play games with money. Involve your child in helping with the grocery couponshow much will we save?

What else could we buy with the money saved? How would that money be counted? Give your child an allowance to learn money management. Have your child save money to buy something special, and determine when he/she has enough to buy it. Ask your child to add coins in various ways to come up with as many ways as possible to make 10 cents, 25 cents, $1.00, etc. Ask your child to gather change in his or her hand without showing what it is. Ask your child to tell you how much money and how many coins there are. Guess which coins are held. -Help with laundry. Help your child separate items of clothing into separate piles. Separate the socks by color, and count the number of each. Draw pictures and graphs of clothes in laundry. -Math problems with treasures. Find a variety of items and put them in a container. Have your child tell addition and subtraction stories. -Use time spent traveling by car or plane to do math problems. Look for numbers between 1 and 100 found on signs, buildings, cars, or other objects. Make a chart of which numbers were seen. Have your child read a license plate as a number, excluding the letters. Find other license plates and read their numbers. Is the number less than, greater than, or equal to yours? Use license plate digits to make the largest/smallest 3-digit number possible. -Cooking up fun with math. Pose questions to your child while cooking, such as if I have 4 cups and I need 7, how many more do I need? If I need 12 drinks for the class, how

many packages of three drinks will I need? -Weather or not. Yesterday the thermometer read 58 degrees. Today it is 62 degrees. How much warmer is it? Tomorrow the forecast predicts 72 degrees -Newspaper numbers. Help your child look for numbers 1 to 999 in the newspaper. Cut the numbers out and glue them in order onto a large piece of paper. -Fun with time and graphing. Together with your child, keep track of how he or she spends time in one 24-hour period: sleeping, eating, playing, reading, and going to school. Make a graph or chart showing the amounts. Tell your child you need to leave for swimming at 9:15 a.m., and ask how much time he/she has to clean up. -Grocery shopping sorting. Use coupons and figure out how much money you are saving. Ask your child to sort the items bought at the grocery store. See how many different characteristics your child can find upon which to sort the items.

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