If your child has ADHD or dyslexia, math may be an abstract challenge. Make math more concrete by giving them something to see, touch, or otherwise experience. Here are five ideas.
Children who have attention deficit disorder or a learning disability like dyslexia tend to be “concrete” thinkers.
Without something to see, touch, or otherwise experience, they struggle to learn new mathematical concepts. But by using common household objects to make abstractions, well, less abstract, you can show your child that math can be meaningful — and fun.Give your child a tape measure, and ask her to measure various distances in your home — the span of a windowpane, for instance, or the distance from the TV to the sofa. Then have her ask you to guess each distance.
As children advance in grade level, integrate new math operations into your chases. For an eighth-grader, you might try: “Start with the number 25. Find its square root. Quadruple that number. Multiply by 5. Find the square of that number. Subtract 25 percent. What number do you have?” Give your child a cookbook, and let him pick a recipe that’s meant to feed four or six.
You can also use coins and bills to teach decimals and fractions. For example, “Give me one-tenth of a dollar…200 percent of a quarter… 50 percent of a dime.”
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