LinkHello Parents,

Math parent pro tips to help your child.

Let them have productive struggle. This means they need to think it through and spend some time. Mathematicians don’t arrive at a solution quickly. They think about what they know, any patterns that they see, and they persevere.
Believe that your child can excel in mathematics!
Questions/suggestions that you can use to help you child rather than giving them the answer.
Why?
Prove it?
What do you know?
Act out the problem.
Draw a picture.
Visualize the problem.

In this unit, your child will be:

Developing language to describe and compare 2-D shapes and their attributes.
Relating 2-D shapes to real-world (3-D) objects.
Describing the attributes of circles, rectangles, triangles, squares, and hexagons.
Developing language to describe relative position.
Making an equivalent set and representing the quantity for a given number.
Developing strategies for accurately counting and keeping track of quantities up to the number of students in the class.
Practicing the rote counting sequence, from 1 up to 31.
Considering whether order matters when you count.
Establishing one-to-one correspondence between equal groups (e.g., students and names on the chart, students and stick-on notes).
Connecting number names, numerals, and quantities.
Connecting and comparing quantities.
Comparing two groups to determine how many more.

This material will be presented and practiced with routines, games, and discussion.

This unit will last about 12 days.

Please let me know if you have any questions.