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5 WAYS TO MAKE MATH PART OF YOUR KIDS’ DAILY LIVES

For many students, math can 1. BAKE AND COOK like a new toy box or a bench for to practice percentages. Kids can seem like the most challenging Math and the kitchen go hand-in- a reading nook. These types of calculate how much an item will school subject. But it doesn’t hand. Making cookies? Double projects require the use of math cost and the money saved any time have to be. Math is actually all or halve the batch to learn about - from measuring materials to there’s a listed discount, like 20 around us. Here are five ways you dividing, multiplying and fractions. calculating the area and volume that percent off or half off. They can also can help kids draw connections Have the right recipe but the wrong objects will occupy. Be sure to point calculate what the total charge will between classroom math and the measuring gear? Convert from out when and how math is being be after the sales tax is added. At math that touches their daily lives. metric to English to practice simple used. the grocery store? Let kids weigh formulas. Witness how produce and calculate the cost. fractions work firsthand 3. HAVE FAMILY MATH NIGHT by quartering ingredients Play games that deal with math and 5. CREATE A BUDGET like peppers and apples. the tools on hand to win them, like A great way to teach kids how For more hands-on the Casio fx-55 PLUS, a scientific budgets work is with their own education, let kids do the calculator which helps students learn spending money. They will learn measuring, timer-setting elementary mathematics such as how to make their money last, as and anything else that fractions, division with remainders well as how to count it out and requires math. and random numbers. The True figure out how much change they’ll Fraction Display helps student get back. You can also loop them 2. BUILD understand the mathematics behind into your own budgeting process. SOMETHING improper fractions, mixed fractions For example, if you have vacation TOGETHER and simplification, providing the plans on the horizon, you can show Following instructions tools they need not to be intimidated them how to create a budget for from start to finish by math concepts. transportation, accommodations, is important for any food and more. math student, so build 4. GO SHOPPING something together, Shopping is the perfect opportunity (StatePoint)

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EDUCATION WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO TEACH KIDS TO CODE

In today’s world, when it comes Today’s kids do have a unique to preparing kids for the future, core understanding and natural there are few better ways to sense of how programming do so then by teaching them how works. Kids with even a little to code. Not just for use in the bit of experience, see the whole technological age, but to develop picture of technology with a academic skills, patience, and new frame of mind. This was critical thinking. All of which are unimaginable in years past. key components for success in But kids today get it and can school, life, and careers. see coding in a unique way. What is coding? Coding is what children critical thinking and makes it possible for computer strong problem solving skills. software, apps, and programs. Kids become empowered by the Your browser, your computer’s results of coding because there is operating system, the apps on an immediate gratification when your phone, Facebook and the World Wide Web, they’re all made with code. Just a simple website they write a line of code and they see actions on a screen or a robot come to life. ” “ Coding is a basic literacy in the digital age, and it’s important for kids to understand - and be able to innovate with - the technology around them. -Tynker like Google requires hundreds of Learning to code also teaches lines of code and full time teams As mind boggling as it seems of programmers to manage and to many adults, today’s kids maintain. embrace even radical new technologies like augmented Most recently, there has been a reality, 3D printing, laser lot of attention to IoT “Internet cutting, and artificial intelligence of Things” apps. These are the wholeheartedly. Yes that means programs that run your entire even more coding! As you might house! Automatic thermostats, be scratching your head, one front door cameras, and Google thing is for certain, there’s no Home and Alexa. There are stopping the technological wave. many more of these technologies Kids that learn to code will be coming! Who will design and ahead of this curve and ready to code these apps? Possibly your launch into great adventures and kids and grandkids! careers of the future. ! New applications are being developed that will change our lifestyle and facilitate our work. As We at Generation Tech are thrilled to serve your community as a neighborhood technology Cou 10% Off pon Code: ! 32ndSt technologies expand into the 21st hub where kids of all ages can century, coding will become the gain new concepts and learn to single greatest tool to manage it. use and manage technology.