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Real life hands-on math for high school
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As I have mentioned her in many threads, my 15yo daughter with a learning disabilty significantly struggles with math. I was advised by the neuropsychologist and my evaluator to work on real life math (checkbook math, time management, measuring, etc.) I have some workbooks for her do (real life, grocery cart), but I need some ideas for fun hands-on ways to really help it stick. Because she is older, I think she is self-conscious about doing things in the grocery store or around other people. I am looking for ways to work with her at home to allow her the same benefit as actually doing it out there. I have ideas from her real life workbook, like restaurant, grocery shopping, cooking, etc., but it would be fun to get ideas from others. My daughter gets stressed when we just work in the book. It’s basically pictures with prices, times, measurements , etc. and then word problems to go with them. My daughter also struggles with receptive language skills, so I need to talk her through most of the questions. She uses a calculator and has been grasping some of things we have been working on, but I need to put the workbook aside and have fun with math. She also struggles with time. So, I am asking anyone who is creative to start shooting some ideas out here of some fun ways to help a teenager learn to function in real life with math in any area using the four basic operations.
What about something set up like a “real town” in our area there is something called Ameritown and schools go and sort of play “town” kids taking on ownership of different jobs and things like that and it is so much fun, and learn so much.
You could make a post office which would require sorting mail by zip code and reading addresses.
Restaurant with a few different menus to select from. Adding up the bill with tip.
Utility office that calculates water, gas, and electric useage
Supermarket with groceries to buy.
Instead of just a workbook, have actual “settings” maybe back drops made out of poasterboard. The creating of the town could even be part of school, planning it out deciding on sizes of stores which is sq ft, planning the town, how large, and what is needed, Maynbe even a history of the town, it could be real or totally fictional.
It was just a thought to get the ball rolling for ideas 🙂
Thank you, Sarah! Those ideas are exactly the type of things I am looking for. I will start making a list.
Keep the ideas coming:)
Are you interested in playing board games that use Math skills?
Here are some ideas on this blog post. But, I can list what games we use that involves math, if you are interested.
https://ourjourneywestward.com/educational-games-make-great-gifts/
Wings2fly – Thank you! We do have several of the math games listed on that blog. My daughter plays SkipBo, Phase 10, Dutch Blitz, Bird-opoly, and Dominoes. I would be interested in knowing what games you use, especially if there are any not shown on the blog. I should think about getting a new one. I did get Ticket To Ride recently. She has played it once. That does require some math skills, but more logic, I think.
I agree Ticket to ride is more logic, but it is fun and requires planning a head and things like that. We really enjoy Ticket to Ride and Catan in our house, planning a head and thinking through best moves, they are fun.
Payday is board game that incorporates math and planning. My kids really like it. Having to decide which risks to take and if those risks pay off financially in the end.
Sorry for the delay. Those sound like good games you play already. How often do you play them? We don’t play nearly as often as I would like to. I need ideas on how to make time for them.
Payday is good. We play Double Shutter with dice and Rummy cubes. Some newer math games we started playing are Prime Climb, Sumoku, 24 games (offers various games from basic operations to algebra), Fractions Dominoes, and Math Dice game.
I have the Right Start math games set from years ago, but I tend to play the mainstream games more. Maybe I just need to dig it out again though. I know they covered fractions and money, too.
I used to use RS math and we would set up a store with price tags on a few items. I had a box of coins for change. We would take turns being customer or cashier and counting back the money, using fewest coins and bills possible. They counted up from the value of the merchandise. Now I use Strayer Upton story problems and ask them to count back pretend change to me.
One difficult math concept my son had trouble with was in buying food at the store by the pound. I explained to him, but he did not understand until we bought some items together and weighed them and worked out the math. Like $2.99 per pound. But the package is a 1.5 pound package, so it cost $4.50. He kept thinking it would be $2.99 per package.
We don’t play games often. I should utilize them more often.
My daughter has workbook which gives real life scenarios to calculate different things. One is groceries. It had some items that were by the pound. She is starting to understand how to find the price for something like that. I need to let her do it for real, rather than in the book. I think that will help her remember it better.
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