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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…

Family Math Night Parent Handouts for Mathematics

July 23, 2014 Karyn Comments 0 Comment

Parents are always looking for simple ways to help their child academically at home. So I created two new handouts for you to share with your parent community – one for preK-2 and the other for 2-5. Although I designed them to be passed out during a Family Math Night event, they work well at Back-to-School Night, as well. My focus while writing the handouts was on low-stress, high-value activities that parents can do with their kids at home to…