8 Ways to Help Your Child Remember Math Facts

As your child progresses from kindergarten through eighth grade, the knowledge and skill to be learned in math will not come become automatically unless your child is exceptional.

To acquire these skills require frequent practice and sustained effort. If you do not see your child consistently practicing the rudiments of
math, -- that is, working sets of challenging problems on a daily basis – then do not expect him or her to be particularly good math student.

Here are the 8 Ways to Help Your Child to Remember Math Facts: 

          

1.  Reward your child for improvement retention of math facts. Possible rewards include verbal praise (e.g. I am so proud of you for knowing five new math facts ” or a kiss on  the cheek.

2. Provide practice of math facts using a computer with software programs that provide immediate feedback for your child.

3.  Use daily drills to help your child remember math facts (e.g. written problems, flash cards, etc.)

4. Allow your child to keep basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division charts to use in solving math problems.

5.  Build upon math facts your child already knows, reinforcing facts your child has mastered. Add one fact at a time as your child demonstrates success.

6.  Have your child complete math facts and then have your child use a calculator to check and correct the problem.

7. Have an older brother/sister, an older friend, etc., work with your child each day on drill activities (e.g. flashcards.)

8. Review on a daily basis, those skills, concepts, tasks, etc., which have been previously introduced.

Overall, emphasize the importance of studying and the joy of learning through words and examples. Your children may acquire and keep this as a value for the rest of their lives.

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