• 提供丰富数学并将其与日常生活联系起来的活动;
  • Talk about how many bowls to put out for dinner
  • Fold napkins in different shapes
  • 当你把杂货放好时，你的孩子会数类似的东西吗
  • 让你的孩子帮忙测量食谱的配料吗
  • Give your child change to count out to pay for small purchases at the store; have older children calculate the change
  • 让你的孩子比较物品的价格，你可以问这样的问题，“Which can of beans costs more?”
  • Allow your child to weigh the fresh produce; have older children calculate the price by multiplying the price per pound by the number of pounds
  • Read the days and dates on a calendar, talk about the number of days in the month, the number of days remaining until a special event, etc.
  • 画一张你家的比例尺地图，确定紧急情况下最好的逃生路线
  • When traveling, 把数字写在格子上，让孩子在看到标牌或车牌上的数字时给格子上色
• Check your child’s assignment list daily
• 监督日常工作，了解学习内容
• 在家使用电脑软件或在线游戏或应用程序来练习数学技能
• Provide some math activities at home:
  • 每个人掷骰子，加，减，或乘的数字
  • Dice and Money.  每个人掷一个骰子，得到硬币的数量，如点所示. When someone gets five pennies, they trade it in for a nickel, dime, and so forth, until they’re trading for a dollar
  • For two people, give each person 13 cards from a deck of cards, have each person flip a card, 然后让你的孩子决定哪张牌的价值更高，以决定谁赢得这组牌. In a tie, place three additional cards face-down, then turn the last card up; the higher card on that turn wins all the cards. Play until one person has all the cards in the deck
  • Newspapers and Magazines.  Find numbers in print and cut them out, 然后按照正确的顺序把它们粘在一张更大的纸上
  • Keep empty containers, write different prices on them, 然后使用计算器来计算不同商品的价格

通过讨论他们所看到的，鼓励孩子数数并识别环境中的图案和颜色。

• What color is the wall in the hallway? What color is your math textbook?
• What is the number on the house across the street?
• 如果我拿走一个，桌子上还剩下几个东西?
• How many exits are there from the school building?
• How many swings are on the playground?
• 你的孩子有没有在建筑、地毯、地板和衣服上寻找图案.

• Count orally by twos, fives, or tens
• Complete connect-the-dot pictures
• 让你的孩子做一本数字本，每一页都有从1到10的数字. On each page, 让你的孩子用胶水从报纸和杂志上剪下来的图片来说明数字的概念(两只狗, three ducks, or four horses). As your child progresses with number recognition, 他们可以添加到书中，并添加以各种方式使用的数字.
• 数一数在房子周围找到的物品并配对，判断它们的数量是奇数还是偶数.
• 在家里，在车里，在排队等着，或者在其他空闲时间复习数学知识.
• Provide your child with verbal math problems.“Take the number five; add six; multiply by three; subtract three; divide by five. What’s your answer?”Speak slowly at first until your child gets better at solving these mental problems; then speak more quickly.
• 帮助你的孩子识别标识、报纸和杂志上使用百分比的广告
• Encourage your child to read nutrition labels. 让他们计算每种食物中蛋白质的百分比吗

• Fold a sheet of paper in half and have your child draw a shape along the fold; cut out the shape and unfold the paper to see a symmetrical shape.
• 看看房子周围不同的几何形状, such as triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles
• Use household items (such as toothpicks, marshmallows, straws, twist-ties, sticks, or paper) to construct shapes
• 帮助你的孩子认识和识别现实世界中的直角(书角)和平行线(铁轨)。
• 一起开车时，引导孩子寻找大小和形状相同的物体

• 教你的孩子在你做饭的时候如何设置厨房计时器.
• 画一个模拟钟面，时针和分针显示8点钟方向. Ask your child to write the time shown
• Arrange various objects (books, boxes, and cans) by various size and measurement (length, weight, and volume) attributes. 和你的孩子谈谈他们是如何用比较词排列的，比如更高, shorter, narrower, wider, heaviest, lightest, more, less, about, and same
• Use a standard measuring tool (a ruler, a tape measure, (或一个尺度)来测量房子里的物体.
• 准备一个卷尺，一个码尺，一把尺子，一个杯子，一个加仑容器和一个秤. 讨论你和你的孩子可以测量的各种东西
• Review equivalent names for measurements. For example, “How many cups in a pint?”
• 鼓励你的孩子把这些词作为整体来使用, halves, thirds, and fourths into his or her everyday life

• Open a pack of Skittles or M&并制作一个条形图，显示包内每种颜色的数量.
• 浏览你的科学教科书，找出三个不同类型的图表的例子.
• Find the coordinates of places on a map.
• Watch the news for a week, write down the temperatures for each day, then graph the weather temperatures for the week.
• 跟踪你最喜欢的球队球类比赛的比分, 然后将这些分数在几周内绘制成图表.
• 让你的孩子列一张永远不可能发生的事情的清单, things that might happen, and things that are sure to happen

• 鼓励孩子在现实生活中寻找答案:“We have one can of tuna, and we need five. How many more do we need to buy?”
• Ask questions that involve equal sharing. For example,“Seven children share 49 baseball cards. How many cards does each child get?”
• 帮助您的孩子查找您所居住的州和城市的人口和土地面积，并将这些数据与其他州和城市的数据进行比较.
• Visit the web site for the U.S. Bureau of the Census 让你的孩子写三条他或她从网站上学到的有趣的信息.