It’s a good idea to keep maths fun for kids – the best way is to teach them so they don’t even realise they are learning and practicing their maths. Here are our top ten fun ways for kids to practise their maths at home:

1. Food shopping
Get your child to add up or guess the amount that your shopping bill comes to. If they are within a particular percentage (perhaps 10%) of the actual total, award them a prize. If you are paying with cash, ask your child to work out how much change you should receive, and then get them to count the change you receive to verify it is the correct amount.

2. Eating Out
When eating out in a restaurant, ask your child to help you work out how much the total bill is going to be. For older children, get the practising how much the service charge will come to or how much you should tip your waiter.

3. Mileage
If you drive anywhere, get your children to estimate how far you have travelled. For an extra challenge, get them to estimate how much petrol has been used.

4. Surveys
This requires a few people – do some informal surveys on their favourite food, toys or films. Use this data to create simple pie charts and bar graphs.

5. Races
Have some races in your garden and use a stopwatch to time them. You can then follow their progress through a line graph, or get them to use simple equations to work out how fast they were running.

6. Cooking
Cooking is a great way to not only teach them to cook, but to help them with logic and maths. Reading the recipes helps with their reading skills; measuring all the ingredients out will help their maths skills; following the recipe requires logic skills. For an extra challenge, vary the amount that you cook, for example ask your child to work how much of each ingredient you need if you want to cook double the amount.

7. TV
If your child likes to watch TV, turn it into something more stimulating. Time the length of the ads versus the actual program. Compare the two using ratios. Monitor your child’s TV watching time by creating a bar chart and tracking their usage over a week or month.

8. Ball games
Help them learn to estimate distances with ball games. Have your child measure their foot or one stride length. Throw a ball and then estimate the distance. Together, use steps or strides to estimate the distance the ball travelled.

9. Mini Golf
Keep track of your achievements over the 18 holes. Calculate the average number of attempts you needed per hole, and the average time taken to play each hole.

10. Educational Games
Play educational maths games such as card games or Uno as these will help their maths out without them knowing!

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