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A Twist on Mondrian Art – A Family Math Night Activity

A Twist on Mondrian Art – A Family Math Night Activity

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Scissors, glue, bright colored paper and pens… Anytime an activity includes any of these you can be sure it’s going to be a hit. And if there’s a way to weave in some math, it’s a win/win. That was the inspiration behind my latest collaborative project, A Twist on Mondrian Art. Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter, was known for his geometric abstract style which used grids of black lines and rectangles of primary colors. His use of rectangles made this…

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Clothesline Equations – A Family Math Night Activity

Clothesline Equations – A Family Math Night Activity

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Back in August I signed up for a Thinking Summit put on by Christina Tondevold, founder of Build Math Minds. It was three days of amazing presenters sharing their expertise in K-8 math. One of the presenters, Kristen Acosta, mentioned she did an activity with her sixth graders that she called Clothesline Math. Hmmm…I thought. That’s a really cool idea. Wouldn’t it be fun to do something like that at a Family Math Night event? So that’s what I did….

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Student-Powered Math

Student-Powered Math

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We do that! That’s what I was thinking while listening to Dan Meyer’s keynote at the California Math Council’s Central Symposium. If you’re not familiar with Dan, he’s a nationally recognized math educator known for reimagining how teachers design and present math problems to spark curiosity and deeper thinking. His talk centered on nurturing student creativity in math lessons. “Creativity,” he said, is “one of the most essential human activities,” and I agree. Humans are naturally curious…we explore, test ideas,…

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Math Monster Mash

Math Monster Mash

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Kids love it when it’s all about them. Let’s leverage off of that and get in some fun data analysis work as there’s been a big push recently to get students to look at, describe, and interpret data. And analyzing data is foundational to critical thinking, a skill very much needed to make sense of our world today. So what better way to begin to develop these skills than through a fun and engaging Math Monster Mash activity at your…

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