Family Math Night What Do You Notice? Posters
Last night I held my first Family Math Night event. It was fabulous. I had 31 student Station Facilitators – the most ever. And every one of them did an amazing job. Here’s a photo of them right before we opened the doors. Can you find the principal in there?
But what I really want to share with you are my upcoming What Do You Notice? posters. You get to see them before anyone else. Except for the first one which I used last night. 🙂
As you know, I love the open-endedness to these posters. They work just as well with Kindergartners as the do fifth and sixth graders. Even the parents get pretty involved. After each event, I post the poster on the Resources section of our website. Click here if you’re interested in checking some of the others out.
So here’s the one I used last night. It involves patterns in color and number, multiplication, division, algebra… I included a Challenge! question for those who wanted a, well, challenge. By the way, those crayons are real. I thought it would be a fun one to do at the beginning of the school year.
Here’s a fun one that involves money. Those soccer balls and bikes are real, too. The wheels on the bikes even rotate! At a high level, it involves simultaneous equations. However, kids can use logic to figure out the cost of each item. Kindergarteners can count bikes and balls and wheels. And if they notice a dollar sign – fabulous!
This next one happened as a result of my scrounging around my math closet for – I don’t even remember what. I ended up finding these from way back. Can you tell what I was trying to mimic? I’m excited to see what the kids come up with. I hope someone notices fractions!
Then I got into another 3-D mood. And since I’m focusing on our Gellin’ with Geometry kit this year, I thought this would fit right in. In the design of the boxes, uh, rectangular prisms, it was important that I use grid paper so the relationship between the numbers and the boxes could be made.
And, finally, those prisms were a nice segue into 2-D. Again, using grid paper was important to the relationship.
Participants who write something on a post-it and put it on the poster get an extra guess in the estimation jar. It’s a good little motivator to get them to give it a try. Here’s a mom with her son who decided to add her thoughts to the poster.
As always, we’re here to help you host a fabulous Family Math Night event. If you have any questions as you begin to plan, do not hesitate to contact us.