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What Do You Notice? Descriptions

What Do You Notice? Descriptions

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What Do You Notice? Rectangular Arrays

Skills:
Primary students (K-2): shapes, counting, repeated addition, area
Intermediate students (3-5): classifying quadrilaterals, area model of multiplication, multiplication, prime, composite, and square numbers

It’s been on my TO DO list for a long time. Years, in fact. But I’ve finally checked it off and I’m thrilled with the results.

As many of you know, for each of my Family Math Night events I include a What Do You Notice? poster. These posters are designed to get kids and parents thinking about math on a deeper level. Although each poster has been included on our website, there has never been details…until now. I’ve taken each of the posters and written a thorough description of the math involved. I’ve also included the specific skills by grade span, K-2 and 3-5, and given several examples of student responses.

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Room Set-Up for Your Family Math Night Event

Room Set-Up for Your Family Math Night Event

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A family math night event is usually done in a large room such as a multi-purpose room. But it can be done anywhere there is enough space for 8 large tables that seat 15+ participants. The photos below are an example of one way to set up a multi-purpose room. The tables in this room are covered with brightly colored plastic tablecloths. There is an additional table set up for the raffle that will be going on during the event….

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Family Math Night School Banner

Family Math Night School Banner

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Wouldn’t it be fun to see that banner hanging in front of your school? It would be a great way to remind parents of your Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night event. And the banner is FREE. As a special back-to-school offer, we are including the Family Math Night banner with every kit we sell for the entire month of September. We custom-designed the banner to include a dry erase area for you to personalize the date, time,…

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Shape Search with Binoculars

Shape Search with Binoculars

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Too fun! My niece and nephew, ages 3 1/2 and 22 months, have been visiting these last few days from Maryland. So, of course, I took the opportunity to weave in some math. One of the activities involved searching for shapes. To do that, we needed to make binoculars. It was a super easy project that involved toilet paper rolls, yarn, a hole punch, glue, and lots and lots of bling. I had the toilet paper rolls already glued together…

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Numeral Writing Practice…the Yummy Way!

Numeral Writing Practice…the Yummy Way!

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Here’s a super easy and yummy way to practice numeral writing. Non-cook peanut butter dough. The bonus is that kids get to make the recipe which is also a fun math activity! The recipe for the dough comes in two versions…the “regular” and the “healthy”. Click here for the recipes.