Math Tips for Parents at Home

How can parents help their child with math at home?

What can parents do to support their children at home in math class?

Parents are the most important part to their child's education. They are the ones that set the tone for education. How can you help your child with math at home? There are five easy tips you can do with your child at home today.

Math Tips for Parents at Home

Does your child like math? This is one of the first statements from a child at the beginning of a school year. "I like math" or "I don't like math". How can you help your child build a positive mindset about math?

Tip #1: Be positive about math. 

Talk about math in a positive way at home. Have a supportive attitude for your child. Celebrate your child's achievements in math no matter how small. Showing them that you care that they are successful in math is important. Create these moments with your child to celebrate and motivate them to do their best in math.

Ask questions like, "How can I help you?"

Tip #2: Ask questions about topics

Show your child that you care by asking thoughtful questions. How is your homework going? What can I do to help you? Reading the homework problems with you child is helpful. Pose your questions as actionable. What can I do for you? Make sure you're not doing the work, but rather aiding with the process. If you and your child are unable to solve the problem reach out to the teacher. If your child is struggling on an assignment ask for help. Teachers want to help your child and not see them struggle for hours.

Tip #3: Watch videos for support

Sometimes a simple video can help. Have you searched on YouTube or TeacherTube before? Looking for math content and similar examples can help. Learning from videos can be insightful to figuring out your homework problems.

Play card games to develop problem solving skills.

Tip #4: Play games

Do you have a family game night? Playing games with your child doesn't have to be boring. Play Battleship, Dominoes, Monopoly, Sequence, SKIPBO, or UNO are great choices. Make it competitive and have your child keep score with a tally chart. Playing card games helps your child develop problem solving skills, which helps them become better mathematicians.

Tip #5: Practice math skills

What does a player do to become better at football? Practice. What does a ballerina do to become better at dancing? Practice. Math is no different. Set a timer for thirty minutes or less to complete an assignment. See how many problems your child can answer. Try it again the next day. Can they do it faster? Exercising with flash cards and worksheets is important to build fluency. Your child should be practicing grade level math skills regularly for mastery. 

Try the Summer Math packet to practice grade level skills through June & July!

Engaging children at home in math is essential. Practicing math skills, playing games, and having a positive attitude for math starts at home. Help your students at home and download the Parent Tips printable today!

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Open Parent Communication Great Teachers Use

Do you have open communication with parents?

Do you need strategies for creating positive parent communication?

This blog post is part of a blog series "6 Things GREAT Teachers Do" that will share teacher tips for using parent communication in your classroom for success. With practical tips and techniques that have been used in the classroom, this will be a helpful series for any teacher looking to create a better communication system.

Open Parent Communication Great Teachers Use

Communication with parents is necessary for any classroom to have success. Parents need to know from teachers how well their students are performing behaviorally and academically. Establishing open communication with parents can be done many different ways. Some of the most popular ways to communicate are face-to-face and over the telephone. Regardless of your communication system, maintaining a regular communication with parents is important to having a successful school year.

What does communication look like in today’s classroom? Here are some examples of how communication with parents can occur in today’s classroom.

1.   You can contact parents by phone. 

      Make sure you gather the correct phone numbers for parents at the beginning of the school year. After that you can update the phone numbers every quarter. This is also a good time to reach out and make sure all the phone numbers are working. A great phone tip, if you’re not comfortable calling on your personal number, only call from school during school hours. Check with your school policy on phone calls before telling parents your hours of communication by phone. Set the phone call return expectations at the beginning of the school year. Forty-eight hours is a respectable time frame for a professional teacher to return a parent phone call. 

2.  You can email parents. 

      

      Remember that if you are a public school teacher, your emails to parents are public. Whatever you write in an email must be acceptable to be printed in a newspaper for everyone in your city to read too. So before you press send think, “would this be acceptable to post in the newspaper?” Email is very accessible for people in today's society. Remember to set an email return expectation with parents at the beginning of the school year. Forty-eight hours is a respectable time frame for a professional teacher to return a parent email. 

       3.  You can send home a monthly newsletter. 

      These are great for parents to see the learning objectives, activities, and other important dates for the month. Remember that parents only have a few minutes to read this. Write and highlight only the important information.  

Do you want the correct email address and phone numbers? Yes!

Do you want to compile all the information in one spot? Yes! 

It's easy. Send home with students the Parent Communication Assignment. You will have all of your parent emails and phone numbers in one day! Once you have all the parent contact information, you can save it to a folder in your school email account. This will be easy for you to access during the school year. Access the Parent Communication Assignment today!

Parent Communication Cards

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Parent Email Homework Assignment

Do you want to build relationships with parents?

Do you want to have an easy way to communicate with parents this school year?

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These Parent Assignment Editable Email Cards are a great way to get parents communicating and involved your classroom! This assignment is for parents to complete and email the teacher all the current communication information. The pages are editable for any teacher to use. Give this assignment during the beginning of the year and start building relationships with parents today!

Print on Astrobrights for bright announcement for parents.

These Parent Assignment Email Cards FEATURE:

*2 Editable Parent Assignment Email Cards (Color and Black & White)

*Builds relationships and communications with parents

*Easy first homework assignment or extra credit

Just fill in your email address and print!

Hands down the best way to communicate with parents in the busy world today is email and the telephone. If you just need to send a quick note you can email it to a parent, now that you have their correct address. Need to talk personally to a parent? This form also has the parent send you their most current phone number. With over 95% of parents emailing within the first week of school, you will be able to have all their update to date information. 

After receiving the homework assignment email from the parent be sure to send back a quick reply. 

"Thank you for your email. I look forward to having a great school year with your child. 

Sincerely, Mrs. McCown"

This is an easy receipt to sender to confirm their email was received. Then save their email to a folder labelled "Parent Contact Emails" for easy access in the future. 

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This can be a quick and easy tool for your classroom to setup a communications system with all your parents. Let them know in the syllabus or by email how often you will reply to an email (example: Mrs. McCown will respond within 24 to 48 hours to any email or telephone call). Parents will be glad to know you have open communication with them and that they can build a relationship with the teacher to meet the needs of their student.

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