Simcoe County District School Board

Growth mindset for parents

Learn what a growth mindset is, why it's important, and best practices to support children in developing this learning belief.

• Growth mindset for parents

Learn to love math

In this video by the Institute of Education Sciences, discover two strategies to help your child learn to love math.

• Two strategies to help your child learn to love math

Focus on working with numbers

In Grades 3-5, children continue to work on composing and decomposing numbers. This means that they break numbers into smaller parts, and combine smaller parts into bigger numbers, in order to make them easier to work with.

• What does it mean to decompose numbers?
• Composing and decomposing numbers
• The power of composing and decomposing numbers
• Math conversations while grocery shopping
• How to incorporate math talk into your everyday life

• Math games for place value
  Games to help children develop number sense and numeracy skills
• Horseshoes - A place value game
• Math limbo
• Set (card game) available for purchase
  This game helps develop visual perceptual skills
• Set
  Play virtual version of game

• Math activities at home

• Compose and decompose to 100

• Composing and decomposing practice

• Building numbers with base ten

• I Spy Products - Whole number multiplication