To place it inside a nice way, my son is rather squirmy. He doesn't prefer to sit still for too long unless he's playing a video game, then it is just amazing. So rather than constantly telling him to take a seat and do his math, we go outside or up the stairs, literally. I'd like to share a number of ways we like to "do math" when sitting still is simply too much. Try these games with your child and i believe you'll agree that math and exercise will go together.

Stair Math
Math flash cards are often pretty boring. You skill for your active child is defined a card on each step rising your stairs and then across the hall and into another room. Place these every foot or two. Some kids like to be timed, so get out your stopwatch and yell "go!" My son will race up the stairs as soon as he is able to while shouting out the answers. He makes it to his room and jumps on his bed in triumph. You can do this game many times.

Flash Card Toss
This math game works particularly well at our house because there's an open area at the top of the steps that appears down on the household room. Actually, anywhere in your home and out is going to do, and it is ideal for a young child who has lots of pent up energy! Have a flash card and fling it as far as possible. Have your son or daughter pursue it, get it, solve it, and race back to you. This can be done until either the kid runs out of steam or else you injure your throwing arm.

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Shoot 10 Baskets
There are lots of variations to this game and you will adjust it to suit your child. You can play with a real basketball hoop or wadded up bits of paper shooting in the trash can.

1. Have your son or daughter shoot 10 baskets and keep tabs on the number of they create. Do that in number of 10s, as often as you want. Next, show the scores for your child and also have them determine his average per 10 baskets he/she has made.

2. This game requires quick thinking. Ask your child to shoot 10 baskets after which ask him/her to tell you the ratio of missed baskets to baskets shot, or the ratio of made baskets to missed baskets. This can be done with a variety of shooting attempts and also have them answer quickly before they shoot again.

3. Another way to play is to keep these things shoot 10 baskets and determine the fraction of made shots to total shots. Next, ask them to reduce their fraction, and then turn their fraction right into a percentage. They ought to do this within their head, or maybe they need to jot it down, you can supply sidewalk chalk or pencil and paper for some quick figuring.

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Interactive Story Problems
A little imagination on your part, along with a stopwatch, makes that one fun! You are making in the story problem as well as your children act it. Here are some examples:

If [your child's name] runs from the mailbox to the back fence in [however long it takes him in seconds], and [another child's name] runs exactly the same path in [however long it requires her in seconds], the number of minutes were spent running this route by both of them altogether?

If [name] threw the ball [measure in inches] and [Mom] threw the ball 9 inches less than that, how far did your amazing Mom throw?

You are going to time your child skipping, running, hopping, running backwards, race walking, and running on all fours. But first, allow him to or her rank an order in which they believe they'll do these, from fastest to slowest and estimate their times. Then time them and compare with their estimate.

Next, you may make up all sorts of story problems:

Just how much faster did you skip than hop?

The number of minutes total made it happen take you to complete all of them?

Which is faster - running and running backwards vs. race walking and hopping?

These games are just a start in practicing math together with your active child. I'm sure you can imagine a number of more once you begin. One thing is for sure, after playing these math games, they're prepared to sit down and perform some passive reading!