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How a Child with Hearing Loss Learns Math

Teach Your Child Math

Help with Math

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Guessing games

Your child needs to learn how to make guesses that make sense based on the information that's given..

• Your child needs to learn how to come up with other ways to solve problems.
• And your child needs to know how to choose the best way to solve problems.

Teach your child to ask questions:.

• What operation makes most sense to do with this problem - should you add, subtract, multiple, or divide?
• Why do you think so?
• What steps should you take next to solve this problem?

Here are some practice problems you and your child can do together.
The problems on the next pages may be too easy or too hard for your child. If this is so, read the problems anyways. They will give you ideas to help your child with guessing games.

• Problem 1 - Use objects when guessing
• Problem 2 - Count items
• Problem 3 - Practice adding and subtracting
• Problem 4 - Use objects when writin equations
• Problem 5 - Practice word problems
• Problem 6 - Practice words that talk about 'maybe'
• Problem 7 - Change, compare and combine
• Problem 8 - Use signs for greater than, less than and equal to
• Problem 9 - Practice problems that use negative words
• Problem 10 - Find patterns

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