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How Our Take-Home Games Helped Reinforce Essential Math Skills and Support Parent/Teacher Communication – a Case Study

How Our Take-Home Games Helped Reinforce Essential Math Skills and Support Parent/Teacher Communication – a Case Study

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Objective One of our goals at Math Unity has always been to engage families in fun hands-on math activities that are linked to learning. We know that when schools and families partner together around the common goal of educating students, learning improves and students make greater academic gains. The objective for this study was two-fold. The first was to see if our games engaged families in hands-on math in a way that reinforced essential math skills. The second was to see…

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Family Engagement Grant Templates

Family Engagement Grant Templates

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Writing a Grant? We can help! All grants are different. It’s important to know exactly what the grant you are writing requires. For most grants you’ll need to describe: We have two templates for you to use: The templates can be helpful as you begin to write, but keep in mind that you’ll need to tailor your responses to your particular grant. Writing a Grant for A Family Math Night Event Kit:Driving Family Engagement with Family Math Nights The Reason…

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Fun Summer Math Activity

Fun Summer Math Activity

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Here’s a fun activity you can send home with your families to do over the summer that will keep math alive – a math scavenger hunt. I’ve done it many times at our local Family Math Night events and it’s a HUGE hit. When we do this at our events, students receive the scavenger hunt activity sheet and a pencil and, working with their parent/caregiver they go on a hunt for math items. This is a great way for students…

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Beach Ball Fractions – A Family Math Night Activity

Beach Ball Fractions – A Family Math Night Activity

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I know I’ve said it before, but math combined with art is always a huge hit at our Family Math Night events. It’s the reason why we included at least one crafty math activity in each of our event kits. In addition to those in the event kits, I’ve also created over 20 individual math/art activities that are fun to include at your Family Math Night event. Here’s my latest – designed around my summertime frame of mind: Beach Ball Fractions. This was a super fun…

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Pets Sign-In

Pets Sign-In

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Kids love it any time they get to share something about themselves. So let’s tap into that while sneaking in a little math thinking. Here’s a fun, easy and creative way to have students sign in at your next Family Math Night event…an Our Pets Venn diagram. A Venn diagram is a graphical organizer that uses circles to compare and contrast two or more sets. The overlapping circles contain common properties. For this Venn diagram, I thought I’d kick it up a notch…

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