Math and Family Literacy

Students in adult literacy programs generally want to improve their math skills. Students in family literacy programs often want to improve their math literacy for the GED and to help their children with home work.

Here is a great website to help parents lead their children in interactively literacy activities that help strengthen their math skills! Check out Mixing in Math!

This link takes you to an activity that helps children & adults understand how to make graphs. You begin by coming up with a question for the people around you, like "In what month were you born?" Together you and your child collect the answers, count how many people were born in each month, and examine things about the data. Which month has the most people? Which month has the least? Then, you can make a chart plotting the answers.

This lesson builds math skills in counting, visual literacy, and math vocabulary. It is great practice for school, and everyone in the house can be involved!

Please try activities from this stire in your class and comment on how things went!