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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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Fibonacci Flower Garden Collaborative Project

Fibonacci Flower Garden Collaborative Project

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I’m always looking for ways to combine math and art into a fun activity. I’m also always looking for ways to show students that we’re surrounded by math in ways we aren’t necessarily aware of. That brings me to a recent Family Math Night Collaborative Project. In this project I used the Fibonacci numbers to have participants create a Fibonacci Flower Garden. Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers that are generated by adding the previous two numbers starting with 0 and…

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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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