Family Math Night Website Update
We just updated our website to make it a little easier to navigate. Check it out here (or click the logo above).
We just updated our website to make it a little easier to navigate. Check it out here (or click the logo above).
We know that parent involvement in their child’s education can have a significant impact on academic success. Our current situation has helped reinforce the role parents and caregivers have as active participants in the education of their children.
But there have been a lot of changes in mathematics curriculum and pedagogy in recent years and a lot of parents don’t feel as prepared as they’d like to be when it comes to helping their child in math. That’s why we created our Power Pack: Building Number Sense series, a set of dice games that families can play to reinforce important number skills.
The power of these Power Packs comes in the integration of strategies and tools that parents use as they play the games with their children. Helping parents understand these tools and strategies has become even more important to better facilitate remote learning. With that in mind, I created short instructional videos of each of the tools and strategies included in the Power Packs because it’s important that parents understand why we are teaching the way we are. These videos help underscore the importance of focusing on number sense when children are learning mathematics.
I’m happy to announce that our parent guide Developing Math Minds at Home is now complete.
The guide was designed to help families support math learning at home. As parents work on reinforcing math skills, it’s also important that we show them how to help their children develop a strong math mind. As we describe in the guide, “Children with a strong math mind are comfortable using math. They understand that math is a useful part of our everyday lives and are confident using it to solve problems.”
The guide underscores what the current research says about how children learn math and includes topics such as:
We also have a Spanish version of the booklet. For a sample page, check out our website.
We know how important it is to help families continue the learning at home. That’s why we created our Family Math Night Take-Home kits. These kits include games that reinforce important skills in a way that’s fun and engaging. And now I’m excited to share that we’ve just released our Play-N-Take 2 Take-Home kit. Based on our popular Play-N-Take kit, Play-N-Take 2 includes a whole new set of skills-based games.
I’m very excited to share with you the latest in our Family Math Night Project Series: Go-Go Games.
Everybody loves to play games! They’re engaging, motivating, and fun. And when kids have a hand in designing the games, they’re even more fun.
In this Family Math Night Go-Go Games station, participants choose from three game boards and then add detail and action space stickers to personalize their boards. When done designing, they play their game with a partner and practice important numbers skills in a way where kids actually want to do math.
Participants will walk away with their very own game board which they get to take home and play with others.