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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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What Do You Notice? Caterpillar Sign-In

What Do You Notice? Caterpillar Sign-In

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Back in January, I sent out a newsletter with a new activity I had created for my Math Medley Family Math Night: Caterpillar Sign-In. Along with the sign-in I had also created a What Do You Notice? “poster”. A What Do You Notice? poster gives students (and their families) an opportunity to think about and share their thoughts about the math they see reflected in the poster. For this activity, I wanted students to visually see that one whole can be made up of equal parts that…

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