You can help build your children's confidence and their math skills without being an expert. All it takes are the skills you use every day at a job, in the kitchen or shopping in a store. Keep reading for some activities that can be done with your children right at your own kitchen table. Ask a child to double the recipe. Try to find a word with the highest value like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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Using a mileage guide, a map and a magic marker, let a child follow the route you take, and check how far you have gone. Estimate how much further you must go to your destination or to lunch. Math is not just numbers. It is understating shapes and patterns, too. On a walk or ride through the neighborhood, help find interesting shapes such as a building that has a dome or golden arches.