One of the best ways to teach students geometry vocabulary is to simply look around our environment. For example, if you want students to understand parallel lines, pair them up and hand them an individual white board and take a stroll around the school. Have them write down all the parallel lines they see. Here are two examples of parallel lines in our environment. Check out all the parallel lines in the door, the windows, the bookshelf, even the light…
I absolutely love the sound of a Family Math Night event! There’s nothing like a room full of kids, parents, grandparents, teachers, brothers, sisters…all having fun communicating about math. This short video will give you a flavor for what I’m talking about: .
The Nifty Numbers™ theme is filled with fun and engaging activities that get kids to think about and make sense of numbers. There’s nothing like seeing and hearing families get excited about math during a fmily math night event! (Designed for Grades K-5) .
This is a super fun activity I did in first grade. I glued a magnet on to a plastic fly my kids had in their insect collection. Then I read the story The Fly on the Ceiling to a group of first graders. I used my plastic fly to plot the points on the grid as I read the story. But the best part was when I had students create points for each other to plot. They absolutely LOVED that!
We’re GIVING AWAY a Nifty Numbers kit. Yup. A freebie. There are two ways to enter the raffle. One is to simply ‘like’ our Family Math Night facebook PAGE. Easy peasy. The ‘like’ button is at the top. Just make sure you leave a comment that you want to be entered into the raffle. That way, we can fill out your ticket and drop it in the jar. The second way to enter is to attend the PTO Expo in Pleasanton, CA…