Our end of unit test will be on Wednesday 10/17. Your child will want to begin working on the study guide on Monday night. Here are some tips to help develop great study habits!
Study Guide Study Skills for Math
Talk it out. Have your child review the major math concepts he’s studying and either say them aloud or write on index cards the general gist of each topic. For example: “Factors are two numbers you multiply together to get another number: 2 x 3 = 6, so 2 and 3 are factors of 6.”
Work it out. Do actual problems on paper or a dry-erase board. Have your child use problems from his textbook or go use the study guide. Re-create the same problem using different numbers and have your child solve several.
Play “beat the buzzer.” Write out several problems that are similar to the study guide. Time your child on the first problem. Then, have your child try to beat that time for each of the next problems. If your child gets frustrated about his progress, remind him that it’s just a game and he’ll become faster and better the more he does it.
Draw it out. If your child is having a hard time figuring out a problem, encourage your child to draw simple pictures (such as a rectangle with the length of each side marked for figuring out area or perimeter) — while studying and on scratch paper during a test — particularly for story problems involving shapes, sizes, distances, or lengths.