If you have not heard of anything special happening at your school to help your children excel at Math, now is the time to contact teachers and principals and ask them to plan fun FAMILY NIGHT activities with displays of engaging student projects.  Parent Math Nights help to explain the new Common Core standards, new teaching materials, and the various ways that Math is personalized to meet individual student needs.

 

For some FUN HOME ACTIVITIES and eye-openers, check out these sites:

 

http://bedtimemath.org/fun-math-fibonacci-flowers/

 

http://bit.ly/1mIGfeA

 

http://bit.ly/1mZTVRh

 

This is a guide for parents from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:

http://illuminations.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Activities_Home/FamilyGuide_FullText.pdf

 

Here are other resources for parents:

 

• Parent/Guardian Overview Brochures—explain Common Core State Standards to pa​rents/guardians, providing insights into what students will learn and highlighting progression through the grade levels.

  • Mathematics

    • Spanish: Grades K–2, 

    • http://www.scoe.net/castandards/Documents/parent_overview_math_k-2_es.pdf

    • Spanish: Grades K–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 (see same website bove)

 

http://www.dreambox.com/parent-resources

 

Current ways of approaching math learning:

http://www.youcubed.org/category/teaching-ideas/growing-mindset/

 

Fun math challenges

http://www.estimation180.com/

 

Free math materials

http://tube.geogebra.org/

 

Computer programing

http://hourofcode.com/us

 

Engaging math lessons

http://mathalicious.com/

 

Challenging fun math

http://numberstrings.com/

 

APPS TO TRY:

http://www.abcya.com

Wazzit Trouble

 

GAMES:

https://calculationnation.nctm.org/

 

www.mathbreakers.com

 

 

 

 

 

             Math is FUN and FUNdamental !