1. This session will be videotaped
If you prefer to not be recorded, please set to the left of the blue tape

2. A Menu for a Community Math Night
Feast and Figure
A Menu for a Community Math Night

3. Literacy is power! The Problem for Math Society has failed you!
That’s terrible!
Oh no! Let me help you to learn!
I can’t read.
Literacy is power!
But reading is important!
We need a program!
You must learn to read!

4. I can’t do math. Oh well, neither can I.
The Problem for Math
I can’t do math. Oh well, neither can I.

5. Changing attitudes…
Who?
How?
When?

6. Feast & Figure: A Community Math Night
Dinner Event
Parent Sessions
Student Math Festival
Sharing the Math
Conversation Starter

7. Dinner Together Partner with a local restaurant In house concessions
Provided by Parent Organization

8. Parent Sessions
The Common Core Standards and How They Develop Thinkers
Common Core Math: It’s a growing thing
Supporting My Children In Learning Without Doing Their Homework For Them
Helping your learner to enjoy mathematics and grow without tears

9. Growing the Concept of Multiplication3
4+4 8 15 4
3 rows of 4 or 4 columns of 3

10. Conceptual Understanding Builds Connections
Continue development including:
Clarification of area models
Development of partial products
Leads to the distributive property
Connects to multiplying binomials
Pairs w/ area models for factoring
Acts as a model for completing the square
How are multiplication and division related?
3 bunches of flowers. 8 flowers in each bunch.
10÷2= 5
2 x 5 =10 1 2
3 groups of 8
3 x 8 =24

11. OR

12. Standards for Mathematical Practice
and talking about math with your kids

13. Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
Student Math Festival
Activities from
Math4Love
and
Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival

14. 4 Color Mapping

15. Any combination of 2 and 3 at right angles
Chess Cheat Sheet
Rook
Knight
Any combination of 2 and 3 at right angles
Bishop
Moves on black or white
Queen moves like Rook or Bishop

16. Sharing the Math Parents join their student(s)
to see the math they have done or
try something new together

17. Wrapping it up, but sending it on…
Which One Doesn’t Belong?

18. Feast & Figure Designed for Parents and their Students (K-12 or K-8)
Teachers act as Table Coaches and are trained,
at least 1 teacher/12-15 students
Students under 10 must arrive with a partner age 16+
Consider offering a nursery for children under 5
High-level high school students may be ambassadors or table helpers

19. For Pilot Schools OSPI provides:
Partner in Planning
Teacher Training
Games and Activities
Copies to take, Materials to borrow
Parent Session lesson plan
Facilitator available

20. For more information: Arlene Crum Director of Mathematics
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction