| My children are like me in many ways, one of which | | | | ground he would score six runs.Every time he played |
| is their love of sports. I have utilised this love of | | | | a scoring shot I would then ask him how many runs |
| sport as a way of helping them to improve their | | | | he now had, for example eight plus two. Obviously at |
| maths and will explain how I do this in this article. | | | | the start he made quite a few mistakes when adding |
| Playing the sports themselves is also very good for | | | | up the scores but he soon picked up how to add |
| them as a way of keeping them fit and away from | | | | either two, four or six to any given number.I then |
| the television, which most children watch far too | | | | thought about which other sports that I could also |
| much of in my opinion.I will use my five year old son | | | | use to help him with his maths. I am sure there are |
| as an example of how I use different sports to help | | | | many sports out there which would have been |
| him with his maths. I will never forget the first time I | | | | suitable but the other two we used were snooker |
| thought about including maths in a sport. I basically did | | | | and rugby.Snooker is actually the perfect sport to |
| it just by chance, for example it was not exactly | | | | use as the different colours are worth different |
| planned. My son loves playing cricket and originally we | | | | points and this gives many more options than just |
| would take a bat and ball to a local park and use the | | | | two, four and six. These are the values of the |
| dustbin as a wicket. When he was about four I | | | | different balls in snooker, the red is worth one point, |
| decided to introduce the concept of runs into the | | | | the yellow two, the green three, the brown four, the |
| game for the first time. If he reached the tree with | | | | blue five, the pin six and the black seven.I am sure |
| one of his shots he would score two runs, if he | | | | that many other parents could use these same ideas |
| reached the fence he would score four runs and if | | | | to help their own children to develop their adding up |
| he reached the fence without the ball hitting the | | | | skills in maths. |