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Hoping to help your 10th-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest.Access online resourcesFor many parents, the biggest challenge they face helping their child with high school math is that the material is too difficult for them to easily help out. Familiarize yourself with the range of online resources, like Khan Academy and IXL that provide your child with plenty of opportunities to review the concepts they are studying, take tutorials, and do practice problems. Even if you cant solve the problems yourself, you can help steer your child toward helpful resources.Find a math mentorIf your child is struggling with math and doesnt understand what use it could ever be to her, it might help for their to have a mentor. This could be a friend or family member who uses math in their work, such as an accountant or an engineer or a programmer. Enlist this person to talk to your child to help to demystify math for her.Encourage persistenceSuccess in math has a lot to do with taking the time to understand a problem, thinking about different ways of solving it, and persevering if initial attempts to solve it fail. Encourage your child to stick it out with math that your child finds challenging and to seek help if your child needs it.Subscribe to magazines that feature mathSubscribe to magazines like Wired or Popular Science that cover subjects related to math in an entertaining and informative format.Watch movies that feature mathPlan a family movie-watching night around a film that features math, like A Beautiful Mind, Moneyball or The Da Vinci Code.Highlight real-world examples of math in the newsHighlight examples of the real-world use of the math concepts that your child is learning when youre watching the news together. Some are obvious, such as statistics and poll numbers that are often cited, and others are less so. Recent news stories that involved math included the complicated operation to right the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship and Felix Baumgartners record-setting jump to earth from the stratosphere. Encourage your child do further research into stories that interest them and learn more about the math that was involved.Encourage investingConsider giving your child a small sum of money to invest in the stock market. If thats not an option, have them open a fantasy account and track its ups and downs as though your child were investing real money.Ask your child to teach youAsk your child to teach you the math they are studying. The best way to learn a concept is often to teach it to someone else, and verbalizing the ideas they are learning helps to clarify them for your child.Discuss math-related career optionsEncourage your child to explore ways in which math is used in different careers. How do doctors use math? Engineers? Bankers? What is your child starting to think of as career goals? Help them explore, by researching online or talking to other adults, the role of math in the fields they are starting to consider.Highlight math in sportsSports provide an engaging way of exploring a host of mathematical concepts. Any hard-core baseball fan knows that the game cant truly be appreciated without an understanding of some essential statistics, like a players batting average and runs batted in. Football is also full of statistics, such as the percentage of passes a quarterback completed. If your child is passionate about a sport, shell enjoy exploring it through math.To find out what your 10th-grader will be learning in math class, check out our 10th grade math skills page.Parent Toolkit resources were developed by NBC News Learn with the help of subject-matter experts, including Joyce Epstein, Director, Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University; Pamela Mason, Program DirectorLecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Denise Walston, Director of Mathematics, Council of the Great City Schools, and align with the Common Core State Standards.Hoping to help your 12th-grader with math skills? Here are some basic tips that experts suggest.Ask to see math homeworkYou might not be able to help your child with the more difficult elements of their math homework, but by asking to see their work and offering to help out you can continue to make sure that they are maintaining good study habits and staying on top of their assignments. Ask them to explain to you what they are studying. Verbalizing the concepts they are learning will help them process and retain the information.Encourage persistenceEncourage your child to persevere when they encounter difficulty in math. If they are having difficulty solving a problem, encourage them to think about it in other ways and to look for patterns among similar problems. Its important that your child isnt discouraged by math and continues to see it as something that is doable, even if its getting more difficult.Use online math resourcesFor many parents, the biggest challenge they face helping their kids with math in high school is that the material their high schoolers are studying is too difficult for them to be able to easily help out with. Familiarize yourself with the range of online resources, like Khan Academy, IXL and Hippocampus, that provide your kids with plenty of opportunities to review the concepts theyre studying, take tutorials and do practice problems. Even if you cant solve the problems yourself, you can help steer your child toward helpful resources.Find a math mentorIf your child is struggling with math and doesnt understand what use it could ever be to him, it might help for him to have a mentor. This could be a friend or family member who uses math in their work, such as an accountant or an engineer or a programmer. Enlist this person to talk to your child to help to demystify math for him.Find a tutorIf your child is really struggling it might be necessary to enlist the help of a math tutor. Ask your childs math teacher and guidance counselor for advice. Many schools will suggest that students in higher grades help out as tutors.Discuss math-related careersEncourage your child to explore ways in which math is used in different careers. How do doctors use math? Engineers? Bankers? What is your child starting to think of as career goals? Help him explore, by researching online or talking to other adults, the role of math in the fields they are starting to consider.Watch movies that feature mathPlan a family movie-watching night around a film that features math, like A Beautiful Mind, Moneyball or The Da Vinci Code.Encourage reading about famous scientists and inventorsEncourage your child to read biographies of famous inventors, scientists or computer experts, like Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein.Highlight math through sportsSports provide a great forum for your child to delve into many of the math concepts that they are studying, from statistics and probability in baseball to geometry in racket sports.Play math gamesPlenty of games can help foster math skills. These include card games, board games, dice and dominoes.To find out what your 12th-grader will be learning in math class, check out our 12th grade math skills page.Parent Toolkit resources were developed by NBC News Learn with the help of subject-matter experts, including Joyce Epstein, Director, Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships, Johns Hopkins University; Pamela Mason, Program DirectorLecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Denise Walston, Director of Mathematics, Council of the Great City Schools, and align with the Common Core State Standards.

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