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Play-N-Take 3 Math Games

Play-N-Take 3 Math Games

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I’m very excited to share with you our latest Family Math Night and parent engagement product – Play-N-Take 3. In the video below I describe these super fun and engaging math games. But first, I want to share with you two recent reports that underscore in a very big way the importance of early math skills. The first is from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and synthesizes recent research from the Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center. This line from the article sums…

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Insect Symmetry – A Family Math Night Activity

Insect Symmetry – A Family Math Night Activity

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Math and art. It’s always a huge hit at our Family Math Night events. Since we were using our Gellin’ with Geometry kit and the event was in the spring, I decided to tie geometry and spring together and came up with a springtime symmetry activity. Enter our insect friends. The type of symmetry I focused on was bilateral symmetry. It’s the same as mirror or reflection symmetry except that when it comes to biological creatures – like our insect friends – biologists call…

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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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What Do You Notice? Pie Graph

What Do You Notice? Pie Graph

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There’s been a big push to get students looking at and analyzing data. So I’m excited to share with you one of my latest What Do You Notice? posters…a poster that gives students (and their families) an opportunity to think about and share their thoughts about the math they see. For this poster, I created a simple pie graph as a fun way to show students how information can be visually organized. That said, as you’ll see in the description below, there’s a lot…

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Expression Posters

Expression Posters

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A little over two years ago I started writing this post. And then the pandemic hit and everything changed. And although we’re not quite back to where we used to be – and may never be – I thought now would be a good time to finish that post. I had just hosted a fabulous Gellin’ with Geometry Family Math Night event at a local elementary school. It was an in-person event which would have been a weird way to describe it…

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