Make Math Part of Your Summer
Summer is just around the corner for students at The Episcopal School of Knoxville. While summer is a great time for students to relax and grow, one of the downfalls of summer is that it can sometimes be easy for students to forget much of what they’ve learned the previous year. Today, sixth and seventh grade math teacher Cathy Stivers shares a few tips for how to keep students on top of their game during the summer.
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Complete one (1) page of the summer workbook each week. Don’t wait to complete it right before school starts back in August.
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Visit online math websites to practice your math skills. Look at Cool Math, Math Playground, Math Pickle, and Hooda Math are some good sites to try.
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Race your parents or siblings to see who can say their math facts the fastest. This is a great game to play in the car on long rides. Mix it up by having someone call out the facts and switch between addition and multiplication in the same game. It’ll keep you on your toes!
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Multiplication War – use cards to play the same game as “War” but multiply the two cards together. Whoever has the most points in that hand wins! Play until someone runs out of cards. For younger kids this can be done for addition facts instead.
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Parents can let students help plan a trip. Let students figure out the mileage between stops, cities, etc. Students can also figure out gas mileage for the trip. Even better let the student plan a family trip including ticket prices, food and lodging costs, etc! Oh the places they will go! (Dr. Suess)
- Students can set up a rain gauge in the yard and keep track of rainfall amounts for the week, month, summer. A little searching online will allow them to compare their findings to previous summer totals. This is a great way to practice mean, median, mode, and range.