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Math Flash Cards and Road Trips

Math Flash Cards can go anywhere!  They can be the perfect activity to bring along for any road trip.  I just got back from a camping trip with my family.   I made sure to pack a variety of activities for the car.  Luckily, we did not have far to go, but I knew that the time in the car might be a bit challenging.  Along with “I Spy”, coloring books, lots of singing, and some old-fashioned storytelling, I brought along some simple math flash cards.  My girls loved the flash cards and the activities we did with them.  We made up story problems using the things that we saw.  For example, after we counted the cars on the train that went by, I had them find a card and tell a train story for their equation.  We would look for animals, tractors, special buildings and tell math stories about them.

Yes, there are many hand held electronic devices that have a variety of games designed to help children learn math concepts.  There is no doubt that these are fun and engaging; however, there are alternatives.  Math flash cards can provide many ways to interact with your child.  Kids spend many hours “plugged in” to t.v., video games, movies.  It is nice to show them other ways to learn new things and practice math concepts.

Parents as well as teachers can show kids a variety of games to play with math flash cards. There are many different types of flash cards to choose from ranging from cards that focus on early numeracy skills to multiplication and telling time.  Don’t worry about buying batteries for these activities!  Visit www.k12schoolsupplies.net to see all of the wonderful math flash cards available.

Do you have any suggestions for great activities using math flash cards?  If you do, please share them below.

Effective Study Tips with Flash Cards: Math learning

Flash card has been a proven technique to remember huge information and master complex subjects. Even if it is as difficult subject as Math (not for everybody though) with all the equations, logics, theorems, formulae; math flash card can make it easier and fun to learn the subject. In fact, every level of students can make use of Math flash card according to their needs. They can make their own flash cards, quiz each other, remember by their own, at leisure time and thus mastering the subject.

So, here are some tips, which can make the learning through Math flash card more fun and easy.

- If you are from an elementary school or primary school; starting from addition, subtraction and other mathematical equation is a great way. The answers to any problem can be written at the back to be checked after finding the solution themselves.

- While writing numbers and their factors; you can write a figure at the front and write their factors at the opposite side. You can give a note of HCF (Highest Common Factor) and LCM (Lowest Common Multiple) with an example numbers also there.

- In fact, for HCF and LCM, you can try by pulling out two or three cards together and determine their HCF or LCM.

- You can write down some algebraic formulae too and some example derivations or derivative formula at the back to memorize them.

- You can write all these in fill in the blanks way, where you can write an equation like: (x+a)(x+b)=____

- Sometimes, when you are studying then try to do your own cards only, which will make it easy to remember formulae.

- Also, when trying to write any Math problem in the flash card, use problems where it doesn’t require pen or pencil to solve a problem. That will make it tedious to do and those kinds of problems are not for flash card learning.

- Most importantly, keep the cards with yourself and keep them according to whatever you are learning in that period. You may use them as a revision of basic equations, theorems or logics.

Most of the time, students feel Math as a very complex subject only because of applying the concepts of Math in solving problems. When you use a Math flash card, make sure that you are learning these concepts very well with flash cards. That way once you become conversant in fundamentals, you will not feel it difficult to solve even the trickiest problem in Math.

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