Your home is full of opportunities to explore math with your grandchild and, at the same time, build his or her self-confidence and understanding of mathematical ideas. This is a chance for you and your grandchild to “talk math” that is, to communicate about math while discovering relationships between numbers. Being able to describe mathematical patterns and relationships, such as those between “addition and subtraction” or “odd and even numbers,” is important to later success in math.
The activities in this section are intended to be enjoyable and inviting and use …