Back in November, I sent out a newsletter with a new activity I had created for my Family Math Night: Musical Math Notes. I got a lot of great comments on it so I thought I’d share the What Do You Notice? poster that I also included at that event. A What Do You Notice? poster gives students (and their families) an opportunity to think about and share their thoughts about the math they see on the poster. But I’ll admit, this poster was tougher…
Kids love it when it’s all about them. So I thought it would be fun to have them be the ones to sign in at my recent Family Math Night event. But just not any sign-in. A tessellation quilt sign-in. As families entered the event, students signed their name on a large pattern block of their choosing which I had cut out of poster board. Then they glued it to our ever growing tessellation quilt. Here’s what it looked like…
I’m always looking for ways to show students (and parents!) that math is everywhere. That was one of my goals when I created a fun station for a recent Family Math Night event: Musical Math Notes. The Station My idea was to have students “compose” their own music by placing notes on a staff* and then playing their music on real keyboards. It was a huge hit at our event, and, as is always the case when you do anything new,…
I’m excited to share with you that we just released our latest family engagement product – Dealin’ Digits. Dealin’ Digits are fun and engaging card games that focus on reinforcing important number skills in the elementary grades. According to research by LeFevre et al*, children’s mathematical skills in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade were shown to be correlated with the frequency in which they were involved in home activities such as cooking, and playing board and card games. The nice thing about card…
We did it again! I’m excited to share with you that we created another amazing virtual Family Math Night event. This latest one has a STEAM emphasis and, like our original event, is filled with lots of fun, virtual and hands-on activities. Includes three brand new stations: A Paper Airplane Station where families will be creating paper airplanes then measuring and collecting flight data for a school-wide graph. At the Coding Station, students will have fun “programming” their parent* to do silly things. Then at the Honeycomb Station they’ll be…