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HOME > FCAT EXPLORER PROGRAMS > 10th GRADE MATH > EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES
A good way to encourage your child to learn math is to emphasize the math that surrounds us in our daily lives. By pointing out the math you use every day—math your child may already know—you can show your child that math is not an isolated academic subject but, rather, a building block upon which our lives are built.
The activities below will help you demonstrate everyday math to your child and make practicing and learning math a normal part of your child's day. The activities can be done in your living room, kitchen, or car, and they do not require any special materials.
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Explore measurement in the kitchen, in fashion and
design, in construction, in home decoration, with tools, with temperature, in travel, with time,
in scale models, and for science and social studies. |
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Investigate health, life, car, and property insurance
that will likely be needed by the child in the
future. Consider coverage and costs. |
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Explore banking opportunities including rates of
interest charged for loans and paid for certain deposits. Note the
example of exponential functions. |
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Explore investments of various kinds. Follow a
selection of investments over a period of time and evaluate the
profit or loss as if the investments had actually been made. |
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To use the problems in the FCAT Explorer, identify a
person, place, or thing of interest for additional study. |
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Create and solve math problems related to activities
in which you are engaged. For example, gardening offers great
opportunities to make calculations related to plants and spacing,
the shape of flower or vegetable beds, the volume of soil or mulch
needed for a particular space. |
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Use the newspaper and other printed sources and
consider the variety of data and statistical displays. Suggest
questions that might be answered by the data and additional
questions you might have as a result of the data. |
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Investigate the mathematics needed for a variety of
careers. Consider the courses available in your community and plan
to maximize opportunities to benefit from them. |
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