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Power Packs: Developing Number Sense in Grades 2/3

Power Packs: Developing Number Sense in Grades 2/3

We’re now ready to launch our Power Pack: Building Number Sense in Grades 2-3. Like our K-1 Pack, it comes filled with fun games that reinforce what students are learning in the classroom..



These Power Packs can be used during your Family Math Night event, as take-home math packs in the classroom, and as classroom math centers.

And here’s another interesting way to use them. I was chatting with a principal at one of my recent Family Math Night events where we were using the games. She loved the Packs so much that she is planning on giving them to her teachers to share during parent conferences. That way, if a child needs to practice a specific skill, the teacher can guide the parent to the appropriate game in the pack and send it home so parent and child can practice together. I thought the idea was brilliant so I’m sharing it with you.

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Power Packs: Developing Number Sense

Power Packs: Developing Number Sense

I’m excited to share with you the newest member of our Family Math Night product line:  Power Packs: Building Numbers Sense in grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5.  These Power Packs are filled with games that teach parents strategies and tools to help their children build strong math skills.  They can be used during your Family Math Night event, as take-home math packs in the classroom, and as classroom math centers. Why Power Packs?  There have been a lot of changes in mathematics curriculum…

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New Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Fish Bowl and Fraction Quilt

New Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Fish Bowl and Fraction Quilt

In addition to using the 8 stations in our Family Math Night kits, I usually include a ninth station where I set up a Collaborative Project.  I did the soccer ball project at my first event this year but then created two brand new ones that I’m excited to share with you:  Fraction Quilt and Fish Bowl. In Fraction Quilt, participants cut different colored squares into triangles and use those triangles to design their quilt square. Some of the math they’ll discover along the…

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Play-N-Take and Make-N-Take Logos

Play-N-Take and Make-N-Take Logos

                            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…

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Rubber Stampin’ Math Part 2

Rubber Stampin’ Math Part 2

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…

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