Hanging Your Family Math Night Station Facilitator Banners
Here’s a quick video that shows ways to hang your Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night banners if your surface doesn’t accept push pins or string. .
Multiplication Arrays Around Us…and Division, Too
If you look close enough you’ll find yourself surrounded by multiplication arrays. An array is made up of horizontal rows and vertical columns. It’s a great, visual way to show multiplication as repeated addition or divisions as equal shares. For example, the top array shows two rows and three columns. The equations that represent this array are: 3 + 3; 3 x 2; 6/3. In a multiplication equation, we always say rows first, then columns. If you want to tie…
Family Math Night School Banner
Wouldn’t it be fun to see that banner hanging in front of your school? It would be a great way to remind parents of your Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night event. And the banner is FREE. As a special back-to-school offer, we are including the Family Math Night banner with every kit we sell for the entire month of September. We custom-designed the banner to include a dry erase area for you to personalize the date, time,…
The Artistic Side of Math – Line Design
I love asking my upper elementary students to draw a curved line using only straight lines that are at least five inches in length. It stumps them. And that’s part of the fun. Because now I get to show them how to do it! This is a super easy lesson and great to keep in their desks to work on when they finish other work. Mounted on black construction paper, these look awesome on a bulletin board. Students use a…
PomPom Fractions – A CCSS Activity for Third, Fourth and Fifth Graders
Recent research points to a students’ early understanding of fractions as critical for later success in mathematics. We need to give our students plenty of hands-on experiences with fraction concepts along with meaningful dialogue about what they are learning. The photo above is an example of developing the idea that fractional parts of a whole unit need to be equal in size. If you feel the colors of the pom poms will get in the way of learning, supply students…