Did you know that you have a math lab in your home? It’s called the kitchen and is a perfect place for you to practice estimation and measurement with kids.
Whether you are a cook who uses exact measurements, or one who uses handfuls and pinches, help them to learn.
A bag of salad feeds about how many people? How many gallons, half gallons, pints, or cups of milk do you drink in a day? Monitor the grams of protein in food and estimate how many you eat.
More specifically, how many teaspoons in a tablespoon? How many tablespoons of butter in a half cup? You get the idea.
I know when families get home after a long day and dinner needs to get on the table fast, it seems impossible to let children help. Especially when you can do chicken nuggets, a salad, and couscous in seconds! But when you’re aware of the possibilities present, you can take advantage of them.
In math, learning measurement and estimation needs practice right through childhood–and perhaps beyond. That’s because in many schools, there simply isn’t enough time to find, collect and use all the tools necessary for the hands-on learning that kids need. Parents need to backfill learning math at home.
What are some other places at home to practice learning math?
Education Spring 
Theses are great ideas. New knowledge sticks a lot better if it has a purpose and is relevant to real life.
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And it leads to experimentation, too. Thanks for stopping by, Jen1
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What a great suggestion, there’s so much you could cover here – ratio, fractions, volume etc
Debbie
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