How To Help Your Children With Their Math

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As a parent, your children will often look to you as if you can solve any problems they have, and while this might be true in a lot of areas, one area where this might not be true is troubles they are having with math; if your child is gifted at math, to where they do not need your help understanding things (or if you are both gifted at performing and explaining math), this will not be a worry for you, but if your child frequently needs help understanding math concepts, and if you were never especially adept at math yourself, it will be helpful to know a few things that will allow you to aid them in their understanding!

In order to help your children with their math problems, the first thing you should do is allow them to explain to you the process for each problem; because children usually learn the math concepts (while in the classroom) in an auditory manner, it will usually help them if they go through them again in this same way, and by simply having your children explain to you the way a problem is supposed to be attacked, they will often find that they grasp these concepts much more fully.

You should also help them to realize, as you go through the problems with them, that the most important thing in math is knowing how to get the right answer, rather than actually getting the right answer itself; because of this, they should worry less about each problem as an individual unit, and should be much more concerned with simply learning, remembering, and understanding the concepts and processes that are being taught.

And one of the toughest things about math is "seeing" it the right way, so if you find that your children are having a hard time grasping a particular concept or solving a problem, it will usually make it easier on them if you can give them a different way of seeing it!

You might not be an expert in math - and your children might never become experts in math themselves - but when you take this approach, both of you will have a much easier time with the math homework they have to do!