New Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Fish Bowl and Fraction Quilt
In addition to using the 8 stations in our Family Math Night kits, I usually include a ninth station where I set up a Collaborative Project. I did the soccer ball project at my first event this year but then created two brand new ones that I’m excited to share with you: Fraction Quilt and Fish Bowl.
In Fraction Quilt, participants cut different colored squares into triangles and use those triangles to design their quilt square. Some of the math they’ll discover along the way are halves, unit fractions and equivalent fractions. At the advanced level, there’s an option to tie in symmetry.
In Fish Bowl, participants will be creating super cute fish from colorful cardstock. At the beginning and intermediate levels the focus is on geometric shapes and measuring with a ruler. At the advanced level, participants will be measuring the area of their fish in square centimeters. The best part is all the fun crafty materials participants will use to decorate their fish. Any time there’s glue, it’s going to be a lot of fun!
As always, I put together a video version of each of my Collaborative Projects. Here are the ones for these projects. By the way, if you’d like to automatically get my new videos as they are published, I’d love for you to subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Not only do I have a whole bunch of Collaborative Projects but I also have some curriculum content videos. Click here to check it out and subscribe.
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