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STEAM Family Math Night Collaborative Projects: Soccer Ball

September 27, 2015 Karyn Comments 2 comments

Get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with this fun hands-on collaborative project. Typically done during a Family Math Night event, this project can also be done in the classroom. The best part is, each person is individually represented in the final product! Students will learn what makes a soccer ball through an introduction to 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional geometry. The lesson plan includes the mathematical background and useful vocabulary along with a link to the video…

Family Math Night What Do You Notice? Poster

September 27, 2015 Karyn Comments 0 Comment

Here’s my latest What Do You Notice? poster from a recent Family Math Night event. The nice thing about these posters is that they’re open-ended which allows for anyone to respond. For this one, I decided to make a venn diagram. But I didn’t draw the usual circles. Instead I drew two hexagons. This created the rhombus (parallelogram) in the center. The categories I used for the numbers were even numbers and multiples of 5. That said, anything appropriate would have…

Play-N-Take Family Math Night Kit

August 12, 2015 Karyn Comments 0 Comment

Send your families home with games they can play over and over! Our Play-N-Take kit is filled with fun games that reinforce important mathematical skills through fun and engaging games. The games also come individually packaged saving you time and energy. .

Family Math Night Collaborative Project: Pointillism Mystery Pics

April 21, 2015 Karyn Comments 3 comments

Who doesn’t love pom-poms?! And a good mystery. This was a super fun project where participants used pom-poms and the coordinate grid to discovery they mystery pics. Click the image to the left to get the lesson plan and to check out other great STEAM projects. .

Embedded Instruction

April 8, 2015 Karyn Comments 0 Comment

When my oldest son was entering Kindergarten, he had an appointment with his teacher before the school year started so that she could assess where he was academically. I remember sitting in the back of the room and listening to the two of them chat about his interests, his summer activities and his thoughts about being in Kindergarten. She then asked him if he could count to 100 for her. Without skipping a beat, my son asked if she wanted…

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