During remote learning it is positive to get your children moving when you can. I wanted to share 3 more interactive mathematic activities with you.
- anything involving maps! If your child happens to be learning about directions maps etc it can be really useful to play map based games with them. Get some grid paper and draw up a map for them to follow. For younger children it may be better to draw the map on plain paper. You can use this to direct them on quests around your backyard or home. Then they can have a turn of directing you. From grade prep to about grad 3 such activities can be really good for developing students spatial awareness partially their sense of location and directions.
- stone equations. at all levels of the curriculum students are expected to answer simple equations. You could write equations (4 operations, multiplication, bodmas, algebra etc) on rocks and hide it around the backyard. Your children would then need to find the equations with the correct answers and put them together. This adds an interactive component to problem solving.
- equation hopsquatch, this is basically hopsquatch but with equations that children need to answer in the squares. Use chalk to set up the court so that you can change the equations between games.