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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

Mental and physical health matter - Ontario Math Toolkit

In this video, discover how to support your child's well-being so they are best prepared to learn math.

Focus on number operations

• A Parent's Guide to the Fundamentals of Math, Grades 1-8
  This document from the Ministry of Education lays out the number operations learning that students progress through in elementary school.
• Talking math with tweets: How to bring math into daily life with middle schoolers
  This article contains practical tips on how to talk about math with your child.
• Solving together
  A collection of math activities that parents and their children can do together.

• Mixed operation games
  Games that require little setup and focus on multiple operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing) with video explanations

Games that use a standard deck of cards:

• Hit the Target (Order of Operations)
• I Spy Products (Whole Number Multiplication)
• Exponent Number Battle (Exponents)
• Integer Multiplication Number Battle (Multiplying Integers)
• Product Fractions (Multiplying Fractions)

Digital games

• Expresso - This game allows for the practice of all operations
• Mystery Grid - A sudoku-like puzzle with mathematical operations built in. Children in Grade 6 should start at the Puzzler level.
• Kakooma - Game for practicing addition and multiplication facts

• Khan Academy: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
  Provides guided practice for a wide variety of mathematics concepts and topics.