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Effective Family Engagement

Effective Family Engagement

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Dr. Karen Mapp, renowned for her work on family engagement, asked the audience at the 2024 ESEA Conference to list 5 events or activities that schools are currently doing to engage families. She then asked the audience to circle the activities that fit all three of the following criteria: “This is how you do effective family engagement”, she said. It turns out that our K-5 Family Math Night events hit each of the criteria she listed for providing effective family engagement: One…

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Dealin’ Digits Card Games – A Family Math Night Activity

Dealin’ Digits Card Games – A Family Math Night Activity

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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…

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Virtual Family Math Night – STEAM Edition

Virtual Family Math Night – STEAM Edition

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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…

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Virtual Family Math Night

Virtual Family Math Night

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We’ve finished! And the result is an amazing virtual event for your families where they can safely engage in an unforgettable and fun math learning experience…together. How did we do it? We created a virtual classroom that serves as the meeting place for your families. Once your families enter the classroom, they’ll be able to sign in and view the Guest Book to see who’s attending. They’ll then decide which of the 5 stations they want to explore. Maybe it’s the Estimation Station where…

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What Do You Notice? Number Wheel

What Do You Notice? Number Wheel

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Skills:
K-2: number recognition, counting, geometry
3-5: addition/subtraction, patterns, odd numbers

This is a fun puzzle where the main objective is to figure out where the three missing numbers of the “spokes” are placed. Since the numbers 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are visible, the missing numbers would be 3, 4, and 10 (assuming we are using the consecutive numbers 1 – 10. There is an alternate solution for the missing numbers 0, 3, and 4 which is described below).

Younger students may notice a circle, a square, and (10) “triangular” pie pieces. They will probably notice that some of the spokes are missing numbers. Starting at 1 and counting on, they may discover the three missing numbers: 3, 4, and 10. It would be interesting to ask them where they think the numbers go on the wheel and why they chose those specific spokes.

Older students will quickly notice three missing numbers. With a little bit of guidance, they should be able to notice some patterns that can help them determine where the missing numbers should be placed.

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