Sarah

Posted on 8/11/09

Hi Sherry,

I am in my first year of teaching so I am speaking from only
one year's experience with Family Math Night!

Our district uses the Investigations Math curriculum. Using
that as a spring board, our school chose math games from this
curriculum.

Each grade (PreK-4) at the school had their own table with
each teacher having a game or activity available for students
and their families. The games/activities were ones the
students recently learned and easy to teach to the families.

Students of all ages could visit any table. (I.e. A
Kindergartener could visit the 4th grade table if he/she
chose to. However, most found the older games challenging and
simply moved on to another table.

The librarian had math books on display. There was a raffle
for math prizes. The Math night was a lot of fun and we're
really excited to do it again next year!

Hope this helps a little! :)

Sarah
Corinna, Maine

On 8/07/09, Sherry Thompson wrote:
> Hi... does anyone have any ideas for a math night at
> school. I'm trying to get more parent involvement. If
> someone can give me ideas for activities for Pre-K through
> 5th grade that would be great. Also, if you have any ideas
> of incentives for the parents to bring their children to
> the math night, that would be great. Thanks in advance!
> Sherry

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