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Ontario Mathematics Curriculum​

  • ​What is curriculum? Explore what your child is learning by accessing the Ontario Curriculum. 
  • Ontario Kindergarten Program Math Expectations (pp. 216-248)
  • Ontario Elementary Math Curriculum website (Grades 1-8) 
  • Ontario Secondary Math Curriculum website (Grades 9-12)​

​Supporting Math Learning at Home​

Please explore the resources below for ideas to help support your child’s math learning and development. These resources are intended to add to the strategies that may be shared by your child’s teacher or school as well as the many things you already do to support your child in being successful.​

The word parent(s) is used throughout the materials below to refer to parent(s) and guardian(s).

Kindergarten to Grade 12

Inspiring Your Child to Learn and Love Math - A resource for families to encourage mathematics learning at home.​

​Inspiring Your Child to Learn and Love Math​​

TVO Learn (Kindergarten to Grade 12) - This site provides resources, ideas, and tools that are aligned to the Ontario curriculum. Families can support their children in using the content to review, consolidate, and extend learning.

TVO mPower​

TVO Mathify (Grades 4 to 11) - Free 1:1 online math tutoring with Ontario Certi​​fied Teachers.​

TVO Mathify

You Cubed At Home and You Cubed Parent Resources - Tasks and resources for families and students.

Youcubed at Home​​​​

youcubed Parent Resources​
Kindergarten

Activities & Games​

  • Read together. Look for math in books (e.g., counting, patterns). Ask, “How many do you see...how do you know?” 
  • Find math in everyday life - at home and outside (e.g., How many blocks long is our kitchen table?, look for and make patterns, find and sort objects).
  • Play board games, math games with cards or dice, do puzzles together.
  • Encourage your child to count any items they show interest in counting, and move, touch or point to items as they count. 
  • Use counting during games, such as Hide-and-Seek. 
  • Look for number symbols all around you: on a remote control for the television, on a telephone,  on the microwave, on signs...
  • Gather different containers and boxes from around the home. Ask your child to decide how they might put them in order (e.g., tallest to shortest, heaviest to lightest).
  • Pick an object in the room and give your child instructions to help them find the object. Use directional language such as up, down, over, under, between,, beside, behind, in front of and on top of. Take turns and have your child give you directions.
  • Play math versions of “I Spy.” 
    • “I spy something that is rectangular,” “I spy something that has a sphere.” You can make this game more challenging by including two shapes: “I spy something that is square and has a triangle on it.”
    • “I spy something in this room that there are five of,” or “I spy something that has the number three on it.
  • Sort different items. 
    • Think of a simple sorting rule (e.g., everything in the group is round or everything in the collection is red), and sort some items according to the rule. Ask your child to guess the rule. Take turns and have your child choose a rule.
    • Sort cutlery by type, markers by colour, materials for the recycling box, or items in the cupboard or closet.
    • Ask your child how they sorted the items, and discuss: “How are the objects the same? Different?” “Can you sort these another way?”​

Helpful Math Websites

  • A Parent’s Guide to Literacy and Math in Kindergarten - Information about what math learning looks like in Kindergarten, and how families can support math growth and development outside of the classroom.
  • Doing Mathematics with your Child (pp. g 6-8, 16-17, 21-22, 25-26, 30-33) - Activities to support math learning in the Kindergarten Program.
  • Erikson Institute Family Math - Resources and activities to engage families in doing math together.
  • Math Before Bed - Visuals and prompts to spark great math discussion. 
  • Math Storytime - Stories that explore math concepts and encourage families to read and talk about math together.
  • Same but Different Early Numeracy, Same or Different Quantity to 5 and Quantity to 10 - Look at the two images and discuss: What is the same? What is different? 
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong? (Shapes, Numbers) - Look at the four images. Which one doesn’t belong? Challenge: Can you find a reason why each one doesn’t belong? (Hint: there are a variety of different answers!​
Grades 1-3

​​Activities & Games

  • ​ ​​​Find math in everyday life (e.g., different ways to see numbers, explore money, counting bricks on a building, organize items in nature, track your steps, look for patterns.
  • Play board games, math games with cards or dice, do puzzles together.
  • Gather collections of items (e.g., rocks, blocks, buttons). Have your child count larger groups of items in different ways (by 2s, 5s or 10s in Grade 1; by 20s, 25s and 50s in Grade 2; by 50s, 100s, and 200 in Grade 3). 
  • Gather different containers and boxes from around the home. Ask your child to decide how they might put them in order (e.g., tallest to shortest, heaviest to lightest, can hold the most and the least).
  • With your child, measure how long it takes to: walk to the park to get to school, eat meals, get ready for bed or play a game. You might use a clock or stopwatch.
  • When you are shopping, have your child keep a running total of how much you are spending by using prices rounded to the nearest whole dollar (e.g., they might use strategies like counting on by ones or tens).
  • Look for patterns in daily life. Your child might notice repeating, growing or shrinking patterns (e.g., around your home, on clothing, in nature, in routines, etc.)
  • Have your child sort items into two groups: those that have a certain characteristic and those that do not (for example, foods that must be kept in the refrigerator and those that do not). Discuss their thinking and ask, “How did you decide to sort these?” “How are these items the same/different?” “How might you sort them another way?”
  • Find more ideas for keeping math skills strong over the summer in the HDSB 2022 Kindergarten (Yr 2) to Grade 1 Summer Learning Package, the HDSB 2022 Grade 1 to Grade 2 Summer Learning Package, and the HDSB 2022 Grade 2 to Grade 3 Summer Learning Package. In these packages you will find:
    • an introductory letter for families
    • July and August calendars of fun activities to do with children
    • additional math activities and games
    • reference pages to support number formation​

Helpful Math Resoucres

  • A Parent’s Guide to Mathematics, Grades 1-8 (2020) - Ministry of Education Guide to help learn about the elementary math curriculum and support your child’s learning.
  • Erikson Institute Family Math - Resources and activities to engage families in doing math together.
  • Math Before Bed - Visuals and prompts to spark great math discussion.
  • Math Storytime - Stories that explore math concepts and encourage families to read and talk about math together.
  • Same but Different and Same or Different - Look at the two images and discuss: What is the same? What is different? 
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong? - (Shapes, Numbers) - Look at the four images. Which one doesn’t belong? Challenge: Can you find a reason why each one doesn’t belong? (Hint: there are a variety of different answers!)
Grades 4-6
​​​Activities & Games​
  • Find math in everyday life (e.g., graph/track changes in the temperature, measure distances, keep a log of driving times, find angles and shapes in buildings, look for patterns in nature, make change for purchases)
  • Play board games, math games with cards or dice, and do puzzles together.
  • Look for situations involving proportional reasoning (the relationship in the size of one quantity compared with another). You might use language such as “three times as big” or “half of the size of”. Have your child explain their thinking. (e.g., if I am 10 and you are 39, then your age is about 4 times my age.)
  • Talk with your child about budgeting. Decide on an imaginary budget to spend at a favourite store and look through flyers or online catalogues/websites. Have your child choose items to purchase, and use estimation to stay within the budget. After, work together to add up the actual costs. Were they able to stay within the budget? 
  • Explore growing patterns by using toothpicks, straws or shapes. Ask your child to keep the pattern growing. Discuss what would come next in the pattern and how they know.
  • Create a numerical pattern and ask your child to predict a number later in the pattern. For example, ask your child to predict what number will be in the eighth place in a pattern such as 1, 4, 7, 10, ….

Helpful Math Websites

  • A Parent’s Guide to Mathematics, Grades 1-8 (2020) - Ministry of Education Guide to help learn about the elementary math curriculum and support your child’s learning.
  • Estimation 180 - Estimation challenges to support number sense and problem solving. 
  • Math Before Bed - Visuals and prompts to spark great math discussion. 
  • NRICH - Interesting tasks and games that provoke mathematical thinking.
  • Same or Different and Same but Different - Look at the two images and discuss: What is the same? What is different? 
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong? -  (Shapes, Numbers) - Look at the four images. Which one doesn’t belong? Challenge: Can you find a reason why each one doesn’t belong? (Hint: there are a variety of different answers!)​​​
Grades 7-8

Activities & Games

  • Find math in everyday life (e.g., explore time changes and currency exchange, plan a trip budget, track a journey on a map, explore fractions when cooking).
  • Play! - board games, math games with cards or dice, do puzzles together
  • Look for situations involving proportional thinking in real life. Have your child explain his or her thinking. (E.g., A store has a sale for $20 off one item over $50 or 20% off on 2 or more items. Which is a better deal? How do you know? )
  • Explore various interest rates, fees and/or rewards for different accounts, loans and/or credit cards from a variety of financial institutions or companies. Ask your child which card, account and/or loan is the best option given their financial goals.
  • Analyse different sets of data presented in various ways, including in circle graphs, scatter plots and in misleading graphs. Ask your child questions about the data, challenging preconceived notions, and drawing conclusions. Based on your discussion, ask them to make convincing arguments and informed decisions related to their conclusions.

Helpful Math Website

  • ​ ​ A Parent’s Guide to Mathematics, Grades 1-8 (2020) - Ministry of Education Guide to help learn about the elementary math curriculum and support your child’s learning.

  • CEMC Real World Math Problems- Explore real-world problems being solved by mathematicians.
  • Estimation 180 - Estimation challenges to support number sense and problem solving. 
  • Math Before Bed - Visuals and prompts to spark great math discussion. 
  • NRICH - Interesting tasks and games that provoke mathematical thinking.
  • Same or Different and Same but Different - Look at the two images and discuss: What is the same? What is different? 
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong? - Look at the four images. Which one doesn’t belong? Challenge: Can you find a reason why each one doesn’t belong? (Hint: there are a variety of different answers!)
Grades 9-12

Activities & Games

  • Find math in everyday life (e.g., explore currency exchange, graph temperature, maintain a budget, plan a journey on a map, fractions and cooking).
  • Make connections between math and possible careers and post-secondary programs.
  • Play board games, math games with cards or dice, and do puzzles together.
  • Discuss and interpret data and statistics in the media, including how it is represented in different ways.
  • Explore making financial decisions, including unit rates (e.g., comparing cost per item) when making purchases at the grocery store or gas station.​

Helpful Math Websites

  • A Parent’s Guide to Mathematics, Grade 9 (2021) - Ministry of Education Guide to help learn about the new Grade 9 math course and support your child’s learning.
  • CEMC Real World Math Problems - Explore real-world problems being solved by mathematicians.
  • Choose a Path that Includes Math - Support with navigating the pathways to careers related to math.
  • Estimation 180 - Estimation challenges to support mathematical reasoning. 
  • NRICH - Interesting tasks and games that provoke mathematical thinking.
  • Same but Different - Look at the two images and discuss: What is the same? What is different? 
  • Which One Doesn’t Belong? (Shapes, Numbers, Graphs, Incomplete Sets) - Look at the four images. Which one doesn’t belong? Challenge: Can you find a reason why each one doesn’t belong? (Hint: there are a variety of different answers!)​​

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