I’m excited to share with you that we’ve added another new item to our Family Math Night kits – Family Math Night Passports. Students will be able to collect stickers as they go around to the different stations to add to their passport. We’ve even included an option for you to customize your passports with any additional stations you may include at your event.
We updated the Reminder Stickers in our Nifty Numbers, Math Medley, and Gellin’ with Geometry Family Math Night kits. We even included text boxes so that you can customize them with your specific event. These are perfect to send home with the little ones to remind families of your event. Simply apply them to their shirt as they walk out the door at the end of the day. Easy peasy. And what’s really fun is to watch kids show up to the Family Math Night wearing their sticker!
Skills:
K-2: counting, number recognition, comparing, geometric shapes
3-5: even/odd numbers, addition/subtraction
In a magic square, all the rows, columns, and diagonals add to the same number. In our case, the numbers all add to 70. Usually, a magic square starts off with a few numbers filled in and participants figure out all the missing numbers. For this activity, though, I wanted participants to focus on the numbers in the grid so I only left two small squares empty.
At a beginning level, students can simply notice that there are numbers and point to numbers they recognize. They can count how many of each digit they see. Some of these students may even be able to “read” some of the double-digit numbers.
Some participants will notice squares. The grid is a 4 by 4 so there are 16 squares for numbers. (There are technically a lot more than 16 total squares and this may be a challenge to put out to the older students.)
Here’s a short video of one of the games in our K/1 Family Math Night Power Pack series. Each one of our Power Packs includes 10 dice games that have several versions – great for differentiation.
Here’s a super fun way to have kids sign in to your next Family Math Night event – colorful post-it notes and 10-frames.