Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to give your children a fun and interesting mathematical activity. There are a number of themed events and math workshops available through quick search on the Internet. Here's how you can use these resources to give children a math lesson they like.
You can create a number of other fun activities to reveal the internal mathematics of the child. For example, if you want to teach children the basic ideas of volume and surface area, then Valentine's Day can really help. Fill three glass jars that differ in size with some heart shaped candies. Ask the children to estimate how many sweet trees that they think each bath contains.
Candy can also help children practice their ability to make spreadsheets, data charts, and graphs. Using hearty candy of different colors, ask your child to calculate how much of each color there is. You might even use one of the thematic math tables to help. Once they have created a total for each color, ask your child to compile the totals into a histogram. If you feel good, sweets can be a generous reward for the hard work they have done.
Use candy in the shape of a heart to teach more simple mathematical arithmetic; as addition and subtraction. Provide children with predefined math problems that they can understand using sweets. Alternatively, make heart cards with numbers that children can arrange on their desk to solve a math problem. You could give them a common goal, and they should use maps to create a question.
There are websites that offer a wide range of Valentine worksheets. They offer various levels of difficulty to make them suitable for first grade through fifth grade. Each set of mathematical tables includes all the basic math problems; addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and even problems with the text. All of these sheets include pictures of Valentine's Day. Online math seminars are also available with pre-written word problems that are all related to what is happening on Valentine's Day.
Heart shape is fantastically useful for learning a variety of mathematical problems, including geometry. Have your child cut a heart shape out of paper and use it to help them understand symmetry. How many lines of symmetry does the Heart have?
Help your children learn about models using colored hearts or Valentine & Day's series of photos. Introduce them into simple templates; for example, red heart, green heart, red heart. From here, you can make the templates more complex by making them longer or include a higher degree of variation.
Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to teach your child many mathematical problems; from simple arithmetic and textual problems to patterns and geometry. There are many ideas that you can choose from what you can find interesting and useful for you and your child. So let them try the next Valentine's Day and see if your child will be stuck with the arrow of Cupid and feel the love of math.
