• Category: addition and subtraction, Five Times Five Is Not Ten, learning math facts, math facts, memorize, multiplication, spelling, testimonials
• Published Dated: January 21, 2016
• Written by: Susan

This post was first mentioned on my Longevity Facebook page. I like it, and wanted more people to have access to reading it. I often state that “Math is all around us in our everyday lives.” I put together a list of math activities you can use along with spelling. You will see that the variety accommodates for different levels of ability.

Look at the different ways to include math in this fun spelling activity for children. Choose one word, such as February, and have children write as many smaller words as they can using the letters from the given word.
Examples: rub, berry, bay, be

Math activities using addition, multiplication or subtraction:
A. List all the words by the number of letters in each word.

Two letter words: be
Three letter words: rub, bay
Five letter words: berry

B. Multiply the number of words times the number of letters in that word to get a total for each in letter A.

1 word with 2 letters = 2
2 words with 3 letters = 6
1 word with 5 letters = 5

C. Total the number of points for each from B.
2+6+5=13

D. If you want to give a child even more of a challenge, assign point values for each letter.
Example: a= 1; b= 2; e= 5; f= 6
Have your student total up the points for each word.
Example for the word be:
The word, be, would be worth 7 points.

More math tasks using the points added up in D.
a. Have your children add all of the word totals for an even more challenging task.
b. Ask how many more points in one word than other.
For example: How many more points does berry have than the word be?

E. Sort the words by the number of syllables in each word.

One of the nice things about all of these ideas is that you only need to have paper and pencils, or an erasable board and wipe-off writing tools, or use a laptop, iPad or other electronic device.
Have fun, and post other math ideas to use with this spelling fun.

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