Math Resources

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​​​​

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!​
  

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!)​​