Last night I held my first Family Math Night event. It was fabulous. I had 31 student Station Facilitators – the most ever. And every one of them did an amazing job. Here’s a photo of them right before we opened the doors. Can you find the principal in there? But what I really want to share with you are my upcoming What Do You Notice? posters. You get to see them before anyone else. Except for the first one…
Kids love hands-on activities. They also love working together. So as often as I can, I try to combine the two when creating new lessons that weave in solid math concepts. That’s the idea behind my K-2 and 3- 5 Equation Cards. The Common Core Standards in Mathematics has a heavy emphasis in the elementary grades on the concept of equality in equations. As we know, too many kids think the equal sign means and the answer is… So I…
A couple of years ago I created a Scavenger Hunt for families to do during a Family Math Night event. As participants entered the room, they were handed one of two “game boards” …the K-2 version or the 3-5 version. Kids and parents worked together finding the items. But it occurred to me recently that it would be a fun beginning-of-the-school-year activity. So I thought I’d share it with you as we begin this new year. The K-2 version is…
Our logos for our Family Math Night Take-Home kits are done! A little behind schedule but all good things are worth the wait! These Take-Home kits were designed to continue the learning at home! Here are the deets: Send your families home with games they can play over and over. Used to supplement a Family Math Night event or use separately, these Take Home kits are…
Last time in Part 1 of Rubber Stampin’ Math we talked about dusting off those rubber stamps and using them to create expressions, equations, and arrays. In Part 2, I’m going to share how I used them in second and third grade to introduce multiplication and how that translated to algebraic functions in fourth and fifth grade. Part 2: Multiplication and Functions For these next activities, the type of rubber stamps students use is very important. So let’s start with…