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Tweet Clip art by Whimsy Clips If you are new to this series, we are taking a look at this book: Getting Your Math Message Out to Parents Today we are going to look at getting families involved through family math nights. Here is what the book says about family math night - I love this quote from the beginning of the chapter: "Holding a family math night does more than just pass along knowledge about math content. It helps create a mathematical community that includes parents, children and educators; it offers the potential for everyone involved to learn that doing math can be fun" - The book shares ideas about having a family math night aimed at one or two grades. It includes several parts - Openers: These are simple math activities for families to do while waiting for everyone to arrive - Bring the group together for introductions and to introduce and activity. - Families complete activity and the group comes back together to discuss. - Repeat introducing, doing and debriefing with a different activity. - Send home materials and instructions to play the games or complete the activities again at home. - They also highly recommend these two books which have activities all set to go. Using these books and the ideas presented in this chapter, you could have a successful math night with very little planning time on your part. Family Math This book is packed with activities you could use during a family math night Family Math for Young Children This is a great book full of activities to do at a family math night with preK-grade 1 students Family math night in my school So family math night in my school is a BIG DEAL. We started 9 or so years ago and have invested a lot of time and energy into making it a huge success. The good news is that family math night really pays off for us. We have been doing it for a long time and we do it school wide. Our attendance is always outstanding. Last year we had 85% of students and families attend math night. Because it is school wide, we structure things differently. Our activities and themes have changed a bit over the years but here are the basic things that are always included in our night 1) Candy estimation jars. This is a student favorite every year. We fill 8-10 small plastic jars with different types of candy, number the jars and set them up alongside estimation slips. Kids write their name and estimation for each jar. About 10 minutes before the end of math night, we frantically pull out all the estimates and find who was closest. Of course we count the jars ahead of time so we are prepared. We also are sure to sample all the candy to assure its freshness while counting it. The person who guessed the closest to the actual number gets to take the jar of candy home that night 2) Math centers: The K-5 classrooms in my school all do math centers or stations as part of their regular math program. Before math night, we have each grade vote on 2 of their favorite stations that they are currently using or have just used. We set up half of the gym with cafeteria tables and each grade has two stations out. This way the kids can bring their parents over and show them two of the games they have been doing in math class. We leave paper copies of the directions out for parents but kids really do know how to do these stations already. Also, kids like to revisit a favorite from the previous year or try out a station from the grade ahead of them. Our sixth graders do less with math stations but I make sure they have a game that they have recently played in class that is out that night. This year, my sixth grade students will also have a QR code scavenger hunt to complete with their parents. I am also considering offering an easier QR code scavenger hunt at family math night because this has been a lot of fun for kids this year. 3) Math manipulative table. Down by the math stations table, we reserve one table for some of our fun math manipulatives. Many parents are familiar with pattern blocks and things of that nature but we love to put out our polydrons which many parents have never seen or used and last year we added a set of polydron sphera to the table. It is amazing to see parents and kids engaged in geometric explorations together and the language development that happens as a result of this is always amazing. Other manipulatives we have put out on this table include math links, geoblocks, fraction towers, wrap ups, and base 10 pieces. Of course we don't do all of these every year but it makes me thing that you could do an entire math night around math manipulatives. 4) We have math night in the winter time. We have always done this and I think it helps with our attendance but I can not be sure because I have nothing to compare it to. Families seem to be less busy in the winter time in my area and are looking for ways to get out of the house when weather is bad. Of course, planning it for winter means that we always pick a snow date and advertise that along with other details. Having a snow date has saved us more than once! 5) The half of the gym not being used for math stations is used for other math activities around the theme. For example, when our theme was candy math we had stations and activities around Hershey bar fractions, rolling skittles, measuring with Twizzlers and weighing candy tins. I make up quick directions and/or a worksheet that goes along with the station and try to make it appropriate for as many grades as possible. The candy tin weighing for example was good for grades K-6 while the Hershey bar fraction activity was best for grades 3-6 and the rolling skittles was best for K-3. I put the grade range it is best suited for on the program and post it at the table. Occasionally, I will have a family or kid who really wants to try something that is not best suited for their grade level and it usually works out fine. When kids have a parent sitting one on one with them it is amazing some of the concepts they can grasp. 6) I make a program that says thanks for coming and lists the choices for activities for the night. This let's parents know what is available and helps them in planning their evening. 7) We schedule one hour and wrap it up at the end by giving away the estimation jars and thanking everyone for coming. This is the only time we pull the whole group together. 8) We have a sign in table right inside the gym. As people arrive, we have them sign in and there is always someone there to greet them. I like this because it makes them feel welcome, they get a chance to look at the program and have a chance to ask questions. We also use the sign in for door prizes on years where we have had more budget or grant money and have been able to provide door prizes. 9) I advertise well in advance by putting the date and snow date on the school calendar, in the school newsletter, making announcements at school wide meeting and taking time during the school day to talk with kids about what will be happening at family math night. I also recruit some older students to help me make posters to hang around the school. I also usually try to put a bulletin board together by the front entrance about 2 weeks before hand to advertise the dates, door prizes and other relevant information. I also like to keep the bulletin board up for the week after and post a bunch of pictures of math night up. 10) The night of math night, I like to make it feel like fun so I do a bit of decorating with Christmas lights and balloons. It only takes a few minutes and I focus most of my attention on the entrance of the gym. It seems to add to the festivities. Have you had a math night at your school? What tips and tricks can you share with others? Please respond in the comments below. Want to check out all 6 parts, here they are! Part 1: Newsletters Part 2: Open House Part 3: Parent Teacher Conferences Part 4: Homework Part 5: Classroom Volunteers Part 6: Family Math Night!
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A Fun {and Easy} Math Game 24 comments math, math games, Popular Posts Today I am super excited to share one of my favorite partner math games with you! It's an oldie, but goodie. You know, one of those ideas that's passed on from teacher to teacher over the years (which is how I learned about it). It's called Walk the Plank. This game is super easy to set up and the kids love, love, love it! It is a great way to help students reinforce and practice their addition facts. And, it gives them more practice with following rules and working with others. Win, win! For this partner game you will need some paint sticks. I sent my hubby to Lowe's one day and they gave him about 10 (for free...even though he didn't buy any paint). Nice! Number each stick as shown. I recommend using the longer paint sticks. My first set was made with the shorter ones and while they did the job, the numbers were really squished together. You will also need some number cubes to match the numbers on your plank. Mine are numbered 5 through 10. I used blank wooden cubes and simply numbered them with a Sharpie. Easy peasy! To play, the students will need two number cubes. As you can see, the two players will also need some linking cubes. Each player places an individual cube next to each of the numbers on the plank. They will need 11 linking cubes each. Note: you could use any small object as a game piece. To play, Player 1 rolls the number cubes and adds their two numbers together. So, let's say that Player 1 (yellow cubes) rolls a 6 and a 7. They would add these numbers together and get a sum of 13. Player 1 would then take the cube next to the number 13 on Player 2's side (purple cubes). That's what the kids love. They get to take the other player's game pieces! Play continues in this fashion until one player collects all of the other player's cubes. It starts getting tricky near the end because the students only have a few numbers left on the plank and they can't control what they roll. But, guess what, each time they roll they are practicing their math facts. They are learning without even realizing it. It's the best!! The numbers shown above work for my second graders, but maybe you'd like to differentiate. Go for it! You can label your plank and cubes with whatever numbers you want! You could also use dice and number your plank from 2 to 12 (or 3 to 18 if you want to use three dice). For those of you who like things bulleted out for easy reference (that would be me), here's the info again. :) Materials needed to play: 1 paint stick 2 number cubes/dice (or even 3 dice depending upon the type of plank you make) 11-16 unifix/linking cubes per player (players need different color cubes), depending upon which plank you are using To play: Each player lines their cubes along the plank, aligning them with the numbers written on the plank Player 1 rolls the number cubes/dice and adds them together and then removes the OTHER player's cube next to that number Player 2 does the same Players take turns adding together their numbers and removing the OTHER player's cubes The first player to collect all of the other player's cubes is the winner! I hope your students enjoy this game as much as mine do! DON'T FORGET IT: PIN IT! Share It:
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Hi ya'll! Sorry I have been a little M.I.A. lately, the craziness of the beginning of the second semester has hit me full on. For those who teach 5th grade in elementary school probably can relate to the craziness that is getting the kids ready for their big transition to middle school. The class scheduling, the testing, the music tryouts, the school visits, oh ya, and my kids who are scared out of their minds for middle school. That just might be the definition of craziness. Insert my therapist hat, one of the many we wear as teachers. Anyway, back to the purpose of this post! Mean, median, mode, and range can be tricky concepts for 5th graders to grasp. We have been working on it this past week. I couldn't give them any more of the practice problems with reading graphs, we needed to do something that required my kids to be doing something. Insert, cup stacking. The purpose of this activity was for students to generate their own data to then find the mean, median, mode, and range. It started with breaking my kids up into 6 groups. Each group was given 50 cups (Target brand cups were 5% off with the Cartwheel app, just an FYI). They were given 5 minutes to practice and decide how they were going to build their tower. The conversations they had were very in depth and some groups had some well thought out strategies. Then the fun began, they had 1 minute to build a tower with as many cups as possible. I gave them no restrictions and amazingly they all went for the triangular tower. Some more successful than others. When the minute was over, they each counted how many cups they used and I recorded that data on the board. The students were responsible for finding the mean, median, mode, and range of our class data. Shockingly, they went silent and got to work analyzing the data. This made my teacher heart smile. When they were done we did round 2, the only difference to round 2 from round 1 was the time limit changed. Round 2 only gave the groups 30 seconds to build their towers. Feel the pressure! We repeated the process with me recording the number of cups used and the students finding the 3Ms and R. By the end of the second round, some ended up like this... The teamwork the students used during the was amazing. They were talking out their strategies and genuinely listening to what each other had to say! The math was important and the point of this lesson, but it was amazing to watch them work together! I made up a simple recording sheet for 2 rounds of cup stacking. You can get this freebie HERE! This was a HUGE success in my class! I hope it works for you! Below is another resource I have for practicing mean, median, mode, and range over in my TPT store. Check it out here! Happy data analyzing! :)
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