You can help your child study for math at home by cutting down study time, making math applicable to real life, and making math fun.

Short Study Time

Math homework can often be tedious and detail oriented.  In a short amount of time, your child might become overwhelmed with formulae, different math operations, and a whole slew of numbers, shapes, and graphs.  It is commonly understood that most children can study for about 10 minutes at a time before losing focus.  This applies to math homework as well. 

Ultimately, you will want your child to review math skills and complete math homework in shorter time frames but with more frequency. For example, your child could do some math work for ten minutes, take a two minute break, do some other work, and then come back to math for ten minutes.  Rinse and repeat.

Make Math Real

The best way to help your child with math homework is to provide real-life examples.  That is, show your child how his or her math homework applies to real life.  For example, when learning about fractions, have your child help measuring ingredients when cooking.  Or, when helping your child learn about volume, use a measuring cup to find the volume of different containers around the home.  If your child is learning about data management and graphing, point out real-life graphs in magazines and in the newspaper.  This will show your child that math has real-life applications and it will get your child more interested in his or her homework.

Play Time

It is well known that kids learn best through play.  Card games, monopoly, and battleship are examples of some fun and mathematically educational games your child can play while learning some math skills.  Furthermore, you can also have a great time playing them with your kids.

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