Volunteer Spotlight: HandsOn Leaders Angela Bertrand and Sudha Raman
Meet Angela Bertrand and Sudha Raman, two members of the HandsOn Leadership team from Seattle Works who volunteered from April to November to help deliver our biggest Seattle-side MathFest ever. Volunteer Matt Padberg led the team early on, before taking a job in Chicago in August.
12 Days of MathWays – Day 9!
Today’s game is perfect for traveling for the holidays – it’s Mental Math! Print and take these fun game sets with you on the plane, train or in the car this holiday season!
Day 9: Mental Math Sets!
Take your car trips to a whole new level of learning!
Click here to download and print this activity
If you enjoyed this, or any of our 12 Days of MathWays activities,
consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child.
12 Days of MathWays – Day 8!
Today is Day 8 of our 12 Days of MathWays celebration. And that means we’ve brought you a full WEEKs worth of fun family math activities you can enjoy at home with the child in your life. We encourage you to print and share these activities – and maybe even host a Math Week in your home in the New Year! Today’s game is an variation on an old favorite, but with a challenging twist – Let’s Go Fish!
Day 8: Math Go Fish!
Spice up this old favorite game with a new twist
Grab a deck of cards, print this activity, and get playing!
If you enjoyed this, or any of our 12 Days of MathWays activities,
consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child.
12 Days of MathWays – Day 7!
We’re ramping up the excitement as we’re halfway through our 1st Annual 12 Days of MathWays Celebration. Today’s activity is perfect for the winter holidays and brings a little snow to you and the kids in your life - wherever you live!
Day 7: Snowball Fight
Let it snow, and show the math!
Click here to download this full activity and show your kids some snow today!
Don’t miss the opportunity to download our whole 12 Days of Mathways archive to share it with your family and friends this holiday season.
What we do at Explorations in Math is bring a positive and engaging Math Culture to elementary school communities. If you have enjoyed this and other activities from Explorations in Math, consider giving that same gift to another community
through a gift to our Annual Fund!
12 Days of MathWays – Day 6!
We’re having a great time diving into our archives and bringing you our favorite MathWays activities this holiday season. This game comes complete with it’s own gameboards – so you can download and print them out whenever you play!
Day 6: The Path Game
A dice game with a dash of probability!
Click here to download this game for the kids in your life!
Creating a positive math culture outside of the classroom has found to be a key component in math literacy later in life.
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12 Days of MathWays – Day 5!
All this week, we are continuing our 12 Days of MathWays celebration and bringing you and your family engaging games and activies as our gift to you. Please download them, share them, Facebook them and enjoy them with the children in your life this holiday season!
Day 5: Over the Hill
Work in groups to be the first team to make it Over the Hill with this fast-paced dice game!
Download, print and share with your friends and family!
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And stay tuned for more great activities in the coming days as we continue our 12 Days of MathWays celebration!
If you are having fun playing math with your family this season,
consider sharing the joy with another family through a gift to Explorations in Math.
12 Days of MathWays – Day 4!
All this week, we’ve been bringing you some of our favorite ways to play math with the kids in your life. Playing math in the home can create a positive and engaging math culture in the lives of children, and a confidence in their math abilities throughout school and beyond. With activities straight from our Family and Professional MathWays program, we encourage you to print and share these activites with your friends, family and at your child’s holiday parties!
Day 4: Twenty Five
A Mathways Favorite, this quick-learn game is easy to play
with your kids on the go.
Simply click to download and play this game tonight!
And don’t miss the other activities from our 12 Days of MathWays celebration!
Check out the archive to print and share them with your family.
If you enjoyed this, or any of our 12 Days of MathWays activities,
consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child.
12 Days of MathWays – Day 3!
Holiday party season is upon us, and today’s game involves the whole crowd. Simply print copies of this gameboard for everyone and challenge your friends to Single Out. It’s Day 3 of 12 Days of MathWays – and this game is our gift to you!
Day 3: Single Out
A perfect party game for kids AND adults!
Click here to download and get the party started.
If this game brought joy to you and the children in your life, consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child by a donation to our Annual Fund.
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12 Days of MathWays – Day 2!
This holiday season, Explorations in Math is bringing you our 12 favorite ways to play math at home with your family. These printable activities – many using items found around your house – are our gift to you as you build your child’s math confidence this holiday season. As Day 1 was a competative game, let’s have a collaborative game for Day 2! Print and play this fun, bingo-style addition game called Connect 3 and work together with the child in your life to make 3 in a row.
Day 2: Connect 3!
All you need for this activity are dice
and some counters – maybe holiday candy?
Click to download and play this tonight!
If you missed it, don’t forget to download yesturday’s activity: Day 1 – I’m Out!
And if you enjoyed this game at home with your family,
consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child
by a donation to our Annual Fund.
Welcome to 12 Days of Mathways!
It’s the most Math-Magical time of year! This holiday season, we’re celebrating the many ways you can play math at home with the child in your life. So for the next 12 Days, we’re going to be highlighting our favorite at-home math games that you can download and play tonight with your family. It’s our gift to you!
Day 1: I’m Out!
Grab a deck of cards, a handfull of beans and compete at the kitchen table
with this number sense game!
Click to download and start playing!
And if you enjoyed this game with your family, consider giving the gift of Math Confidence to another child by a donation to our Annual Fund.
