{"id":3070,"date":"2013-01-13T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2013-04-11T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:11:47","slug":"8-benefits-to-hosting-a-nifty-numbers-or-math-medley-family-math-night-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3070","title":{"rendered":"8 Benefits to Hosting a Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research indicates over and over the strong correlation between parent involvement and student achievement.  One of my favorite books on the topic is <em>Beyond the Bake Sale<\/em> by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies.  It&#8217;s filled with anecdotes about what works and lots of strategies to begin building strong family-school partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one way is to host a Family Math Night event.  Family Math Night events are a great way to get parents involved on an academic level, in addition to many other benefits.  Here are 8 of them (pdf version below):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3072\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kidnexions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FamilyMathNightBenefitsHandoutScreenshot-231x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Family Math Night Benefits Handout\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FamilyMathNightBenefitsHandoutScreenshot-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/FamilyMathNightBenefitsHandoutScreenshot.png 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">www.FamilyMathNight.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidnexions.com\/pdf\/FamilyMathNightBenefitsHandoutWeb.pdf\" title=\"Family Math Night Benefits\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to print the pdf version to share with teachers, administrators, parents, PTA\/PTO, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research indicates over and over the strong correlation between parent involvement and student achievement. 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Family Math Night events are a great way to get parents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3070\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,82,78],"tags":[102,69,88,67,21,22,126,70],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-math-night-2","category-nifty-numbers-kit","category-promotion","tag-common-core-state-standards","tag-family-math-night","tag-hands-on-math","tag-k-5-math","tag-karyn-hodgens","tag-kidnexions","tag-math-medley","tag-nifty-numbers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>8 Benefits to Hosting a Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night Event - Karyn&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familymathnight.com\/blog\/?p=3070\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"8 Benefits to Hosting a Nifty Numbers or Math Medley Family Math Night Event - Karyn&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Research indicates over and over the strong correlation between parent involvement and student achievement. 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