What is a Family Math Night Event?
A Family Math Night event… …is a fun, shared experience that promotes family involvement with math! …builds strong family-school partnerships! …creates a sense of community! .
Teaching Kids the Price of Luxury – A Teachable Money Moment
It’s our job as parents to provide food, shelter, and clothing to our kids. But no where in the manual does it say that our little cherubs need to be clothed in the finest of linens. So the next time you’re out shopping with Junior, and he is just drooling over those $100 Lacoste shoes that “everyone is wearing”, remind him that you will always make sure his toes are dry and comfy, but your shoe budget taps out at ($60)….
Teaching Kids Money: Embracing Mistakes
Nobody likes to make mistakes. They’re annoying, frustrating, and sometimes even embarrassing. And they often make us feel like we’ve done something wrong. Unless we change the way we think about them. And when we do, we can discover that mistakes are one of the most powerful teaching tools we have. Consider your child being in charge of making a class poster for the school play. He brings home the poster board and stencils and begins to work. “Do you…
Family Math Night – Recruiting Volunteers via SignUp.com
For any Family Math Night event to be successful you’re going to need to recruit volunteers. For a Nifty Numbers event, you’ll need volunteers to help run your stations. You may also decide to have someone take care of the photocopying. A super easy way to recruit these volunteers is by using SignUp.com. I know this because I actually set up a mock family math night event using their service. It’s FREE. Plus I wanted to get a feel for…
The Young Investor, Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow – A Review
Ryan had a race this past weekend just east of Los Angeles. It was a 7-hour drive and the perfect opportunity for me to use my passenger time to review The Young Investor, Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow by Katherine R. Bateman. I was interested in reading the book because I am a big believer in exposing kids to ways to make their money grow. Early elementary kids should open a savings account at a bank…