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Family Math Night Project Series: Go-Go Games

Family Math Night Project Series: Go-Go Games

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I’m very excited to share with you the latest in our Family Math Night Project Series: Go-Go Games.

Everybody loves to play games! They’re engaging, motivating, and fun. And when kids have a hand in designing the games, they’re even more fun.

In this Family Math Night Go-Go Games station, participants choose from three game boards and then add detail and action space stickers to personalize their boards. When done designing, they play their game with a partner and practice important numbers skills in a way where kids actually want to do math.

Participants will walk away with their very own game board which they get to take home and play with others.

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What Do You Notice? Number Theory

What Do You Notice? Number Theory

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Skills:
K-2: counting, skip counting, patterns, even/odd numbers
3-5: even/odd numbers, patterns, multiples, factors, multiplication, common multiples, prime/composite numbers

When students learn to skip count* they are reciting the multiples of the number they started with. It’s a great early introduction to multiplication. This poster is a horizontal representation of some of the multiples for numbers 1 – 23 which are represented by different colors. For example, multiples of 1 are magenta; multiples of 2 are yellow; 3 are green, etc.

Factors are the numbers multiplied together to arrive at another number. For example, 2 and 3 are the factors that, when multiplied, result in the product 6. This poster shows the factors of each number vertically. The factors of 6 are: 1 (magenta), 2 (yellow), 3, (green), and 6 (blue).

1 x 6 = 6 and 2 x 3 = 6

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Family Math Night Project Series: Bug Box

Family Math Night Project Series: Bug Box

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I’m very excited to share with you our newest Family Math Night product line designed around hands-on projects in math. We’re calling it our Project Series and the first one, just released, is Project: Bug Box.

Hands-on and super fun, this Family Math Night Bug Box station will get the creative juices flowing! Participants choose one of their favorite (plastic!) bugs and use 2- and 3-dimensional geometry along with number skills to create a rectangular prism. Participants will walk away with a custom designed box for their bug which they get to bring home and share with others.

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What Do You Notice? poster – Crossed Lines

What Do You Notice? poster – Crossed Lines

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Skills:
K-2: colors, counting, even/odd numbers
3-5: multiplication, even/odd numbers, multiples of 3, square numbers

Crossed lines is an easy strategy for learning multiplication facts. The horizontal and vertical lines represent the factors in the multiplication problem. For example, in the problem 4 x 3, students would draw 4 horizontal lines and then intersect them with 3 vertical lines as is shown in the last example above. The intersection of the lines is the answer to the problem. So for 4 x 3, there would be 12 intersections.

To make the strategy more visible, I used colored dots to highlight the intersections. I was deliberate in the colors I chose. The green dots represent an even product and the pink dots represent an odd product. Notice how all the products are multiples of 3. At a higher level, older students may notice that 3 x 3 makes a square and 9 is a square number.

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What Do You Notice? poster – Number Grid Puzzle

What Do You Notice? poster – Number Grid Puzzle

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Skills:
K-2: number recognition, pattern
3-5: pattern, addition

My youngest son visited the Basilica Sagrada Familia, a Roman Catholic Church in Barcelona, Spain and brought this pattern back for me as a gift. Here’s a photo of his gift: (And before you read the next paragraph where I describe the main pattern, you may want to discover your own patterns first.)

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