June 10. 2009

How well does your child to mental math? Mental math is math the child does without using concrete manipulatives. In other words, it's math they do in their heads.

Try asking a few simple questions. Watch to see if your child is mentally counting, or using some other strategy to figure out the answers. Give increasingly difficult questions to build mental math strength. 

Before or after story time might be a good mental math time each day.