Family Math Night

Last Thursday night 15 of my friends were able to come back to school with a member of their family to learn more about math and just have fun. It was so wonderful to have so many people come back for our math night! If you were not able to attend I promise that is just fine too but you should have received the packet of papers I sent home with everyone that night – I would love for you to put all of these papers in your binder so you can continue to practice the things we are working so hard on when you are at home – just slip them into the plastic sleeves! Of course if there are any questions please let me know.

At math night we started out by making a prediction to see how many m&m’s were in the jar and made patterns with our families. Then we talked a little bit about our curriculum and how we learn about math during the school day! It is so crazy how math plays a part in almost every job there is so of course we decided to make a video talking about what we want to be when we grow up and why it is important that we know math (I fixed the video so you can now see all of my friends cute little faces). Next we got to do four different activities with our families that we do throughout the day usually during counting mats. We played a teen number matching game, we used the purple numbers to make teen numbers and showed them using different coins, we put our purple numbers in counting order and played a fun game called “crackers crackers”, and we even used dice and counters to add, subtract and compare numbers! I also showed the backpacks and bags that I will be sending home to do with your families – remember these activities are meant to encourage learning at home and are meant to be FUN – so please make it work into your family schedule! I sure hope all of the families that were able to attend had as much fun as I did! I took a few pictures of our fun night and put them into a video as well. So please enjoy both of our math night videos! The first one is of what we want to be when we grow up and the second video is of our actual family math night!