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Help Your Child with Maths through: |
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participating
in after-school parent/child programs such as Family Maths, Family
Science; |
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engaging
with your children appropriate family games, puzzles, experiments,
designing and model building activities that use a variety of
mathematics, science and technology skills; |
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discussing
regularly with your children their classroom activities, and
listening carefully to their explanations of what has been
learned; |
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providing
time, a place and encouragement for doing homework assignments; |
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encouraging
your children to persist when the work becomes difficult; not to
expect parents or tutors to do the work for them; |
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participating
in parent-teacher conferences; |
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taking
advantage of opportunities to visit classes; |
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celebrating
with your children the many small successes in their learning; |
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encouraging
and expecting them to be able to do/solve the problems/activities. |
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schools and the community need to do all they can to ensure that
our children are leaving school with a positive attitude to mathematics. |
We
do not accept that it is socially acceptable to say ‘l am no
good at maths’. |
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Family Maths Charitable Trust
Post: PO Box 304002 Hauraki Corner, North Shore City 0622, New Zealand
Tel: 09 445 8312 Fax: 09 445 8472 Email:
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Len Cooper
