Hi, friends! So, our school-wide math night was a huge success. While parents were in 30 minute math classes, our students had a blast with math games and activities throughout the school.
We saw about 40 of our 120 1st grade families, which was great! Our half-hour session focused on two main things -explaining the why behind our methods and answering parent questions/concerns.
Our families asked great questions –
- Why do students need to do things multiple ways?
- Why are students not being taught regrouping in 1st grade? It seems so much harder without it.
- Why are we not seeing a lot of math homework?
As teachers, the structured section of our presentation looked like this (you can download the presentation as a PDF here)-
- Common Core vs. math curriculum
- What does a 60 minute math class look like?
- What are the ‘core’ skills we’ll be teaching this year and why.
- How can you help? Resources for families
It really was a fantastic evening! As a parting ‘gift’ we gave parents this handout that gives a breakdown of much of the math language we’ll be using this year and a little background on what their students will be learning. If you think your school or parents would find this helpful, feel free to download it from TPT (at no cost) and share it. 🙂
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Allie Bond says
August 30, 2014 at 12:46 amThanks for the freebie! I downloaded and shared on my blog.
Enjoy your long weekend!
Allie
http://thepositiveteacher.blogspot.com
Em Hutchison says
September 22, 2014 at 7:01 pmOur curriculum night is tomorrow! Thanks for this!! I would like to do another night that focuses just on math. But for tomorrow we will discuss our goals in May and how the standards build. Parents will get to travel to the different classes just like their kids do! I am going to see how I can sneak your great resource in!! 🙂
Em
Curiousfirsties
Growing Firsties says
September 23, 2014 at 1:53 amYou never cease to amaze me, girl!!! Thank you SO much!!!!
Growing Firsties
Kate says
September 27, 2014 at 12:50 pmSo sweet! Thank YOU, Lisa. 🙂
OhioMom2 says
September 24, 2014 at 11:13 pmWe have our Math Nght next month but it's an hour long. Would you be able to share a power point or notes about what you shared with parents? I'm presenting alone to our Kdg families and am getting a little nervous.
Nicole Marzocchi says
August 17, 2015 at 1:53 amDoes a third grade version of this exist? I love it!
Chris says
September 11, 2016 at 6:28 amMy son was born with a short left arm with no hand and your pool noodle card holder is going to be great for him. I will just attach an elastic loop so he can attach it to his short arm. Thanks for the great idea.
Chris