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How a Child with Hearing Loss Learns Math
Teach Your Child Math
Help with Math
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Practice problems
Children learn best by watching others do something and then trying it on their own.
If your child sees how you do math, he will learn how to do it, too! Try talking about math this way:
Help your child see how math helps in real life.
- Talk about when your child will need to solve problems.
- Practice solving problems with your child.
Teach your child problem solving skills.
- Ask your child to practice counting change and adding totals at the grocery store.
- Ask your child to help you make a shopping list. Your child can list items by aisle. For example, in
the produce section, your child can list all the fruits and vegetables you want to buy.
- Ask your child to make a table for his weekly chores, your family's weekly food menu, or weekly
calendar of activities.
- Practice word problems that ask about cause and effect. Ask your child, Why did this happen, and what was the result of it? Use words like because and since.
- Ask your child to draw or write what he thinks will happen.
Children with hearing loss have trouble doing all the steps to the math problem:
- They need practice in breaking down the whole problem into smaller parts.
- They need help in solving the problem step by step.
- They need to learn how to show all their work so the teacher can see how they got their final answer.
Practice math word problems as much as you can with your child.
- Practice problems are available in your child's schoolbooks, and from the teachers.
- Practice word problems in English and Spanish online at
Math stories.
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 math problems.
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