Math is not just in the classroom, and summer is a great time to learn how math relates to the real world. It's more than just addition and subtraction worksheets— it's everywhere you look. Find out more about how you can engage your kiddos in real-world math with the suggestions below.
- Simple Tips for Summer Math Learning from PBS
- Table Talk Mathematics, a weekly newsletter for ideas (or two) that you could use to enhance the dinner table conversations.
- Bedtime Math makes math part of the family routine. Everyday they serve up a quick bite of wacky real-world math just for fun. It's nothing like school!
- 11 Everyday Ways to Learn (and Practice) Math by Having Fun by Familyeducation.com
- Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
SUMMER MATH OPPORTUNITIES
Dreambox Learning is an engaging, self-adaptive tool to help students learn in a way that enables them to think and make sense of mathematics. Available throughout the summer, students can log into Dreambox to practice standard specific skills, at just the right level. The program will be monitored by Suffield Public School staff throughout the summer and can be reached through email for any questions or concerns by clicking here.
The 2020 Commissioner's Summer Math Challenge stresses the importance of maintaining math skills during the summer. Schools compete based on student population and grade level. The program identifies the schools with the highest percentage of participating enrollment and the highest number of badges earned by participating students. Registration instructions, district reporting forms and all other materials are available below.
Registration for Grades 1-8
Summer Math Log
Summer Math School Reporting Form - Form must be completed by October 2, 2020.
Student Certificate
Message to Parents and Students
Registration for Grades 1-8
Summer Math Log
Summer Math School Reporting Form - Form must be completed by October 2, 2020.
Student Certificate
Message to Parents and Students
Math book author and fluency guru, Greg Tang is offering a Summer Math Challenge for students in grades K-6.
This challenge encompasses a game board by grade level chock-full of challenges and puzzles for your child to complete over the summer.
Click the image above to find out more about this fun challenge!
This challenge encompasses a game board by grade level chock-full of challenges and puzzles for your child to complete over the summer.
Click the image above to find out more about this fun challenge!
The below math activities below will help you keep your child's mathematics fresh in fun and engaging ways. Here you will find online resources, apps, mathematics literature and suggestions for how to get your child involved in coding. Like a menu, you can mix and match ideas. Any options you choose are sure to be winners!
MORE WAYS TO EXTEND MATH THIS SUMMER!
ABCYa (choose your grade and have a blast!)
Fun Brain (math Arcade)
www.pbskids.org (check out Peg + Cat)
Illuminiations by NCTM (click on K-2 activities and press SEARCH)
Adapted Mind (students feel like they are playing a game while practicing concepts and skills)
Fun Brain (math Arcade)
www.pbskids.org (check out Peg + Cat)
Illuminiations by NCTM (click on K-2 activities and press SEARCH)
Adapted Mind (students feel like they are playing a game while practicing concepts and skills)
Coding
Coding is one of the most critical skills that a child can have in a 21st Century world and beyond! Get your kiddos excited about coding with the activities below:
- Take a course with your child about coding at Code.org - perfect for students and adults alike! Participate in your own family “Hour of Code” by exploring one of the websites below to dive into coding!
- Kodable Kids has some easy lessons that you can do with your PreK-5 grade student. Help your child build foundational coding skills all the way up to reading and writing code.
- Check out some amazing projects at Made with Code from Google. Here kids can change their face into a kaleidoscope masterpiece, mix their own music or help Riley from Disney Pixar's Inside Out solve some of life's little problems.
- Look under "More Math Apps" below for more coding apps and websites.
Math Apps are sure way to keep kids practicing their math skills. There are many wonderful apps to choose from, so here's a list of iPhone, iPad and Android apps for your K-2 kiddos to try.
Hungry Fish Hungry Guppy Line ‘Em Up (to 120) Close to 100
Subitizing Motion Math Zoom Line ‘Em Up Okta’s Rescue
Concentration Match 10
More Math Apps
Hungry Fish Hungry Guppy Line ‘Em Up (to 120) Close to 100
Subitizing Motion Math Zoom Line ‘Em Up Okta’s Rescue
Concentration Match 10
More Math Apps
- Daisy the Dinosaur (iOS) is geared toward younger students and helps them with the basics of programming as they make Daisy the Dinosaur move with simple commands.
- Hopscotch (iOS) is the next level up from Daisy the Dinosaur. It includes more characters and commands but sticks to the basic principles of programming for young coders.
- Scratch Jr. (iOS, Android, Amazon) is a simplified version of the enormously popular Scratch coding program, so it is great for students aged 5 - 7. Students build their own stories and program what happens within them.
- Cargo-Bot (iOS) is a newer app that has coders commanding a robot to move boxes in strategic ways.
- Save the Animals (iOS and Android) is a coding game that directs animals down safe paths through different environments. Learn basic coding principals while saving the animals!
Mathematics + Reading = The Perfect Combination.
See if you can find the mathematics in each of these great books. Remember books can and should be enjoyed by kiddos and parents together!
Shape, Shape, Shapes by Tana Hobin Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews Edwina the Emu by Sheena Knowles
Edwin the Emu by Sheena Knowles The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni Chicka, Chicka 1, 2, 3
The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
100 Days of School by Trudy Harris The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid
What Comes in 2s, 3s and 4s? by Suzanne Aker The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola One Hundred Angry Ants, Elinor J. Pinczes
For suggestions for even more books, visit And Next Comes L
See if you can find the mathematics in each of these great books. Remember books can and should be enjoyed by kiddos and parents together!
Shape, Shape, Shapes by Tana Hobin Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews Edwina the Emu by Sheena Knowles
Edwin the Emu by Sheena Knowles The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni Chicka, Chicka 1, 2, 3
The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
100 Days of School by Trudy Harris The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid
What Comes in 2s, 3s and 4s? by Suzanne Aker The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola One Hundred Angry Ants, Elinor J. Pinczes
For suggestions for even more books, visit And Next Comes L