Registration will close for Make a Move for Math a11pm on January 20th. Secure your spot by signing up today!! Join us for a night of transformations as we celebrate math culture in the making at our 5th annual fundraising dinner, Make a Move for Math on February 3rd at Georgetown Ballroom. Click here for event details and purchase your tickets today!

Come out and join the fun as part of Medieval Merriment Month at Seattle Children’s Museum!  Explorations in Math is presenting a day of medieval fun and games on Saturday, January 21st including Chariot Races, Chess and Math Bingo.  It’s a festival of math fun no Knight or Lady would want to miss!

When: Saturday, January 21, 2012, 10am – 3pm

Where: Seattle Children’s Museum, Center House, Seattle Center

Additional Info: See the Seattle Center webpage for more venue information

Would you like to Volunteer at this event?

See more information and register on our Volunteer Information Page!

Resolving to volunteer in the new year?  Check out our 2012 volunteer opportunities! Join the math movement by helping out at a Family Math Night, MathWays workshop or our fundraising dinner!

Close out 2011 with the gift of Math Confidence!  By making a year end tax deductible donation you will influence schools and students in the Puget Sound community by supporting after-school math programs, Family Math Nights, Summer Math Camps and so many more opportunities to bring a positive and sustainable math culture to a child’s life.

• $30: Provides ongoing support to an EIM partner school and impacts their programs for their students and community.
• $80: Sponsors 1 week of an after-school math club that gives students the chance to explore math outside of the classroom.
• $150: Sponsors a Family Math Night, where the whole family is engaged in playing math and learns how to bring a positive and fun math culture home with them!

Every dollar counts. Click here to donate today!

All through this month, we’ve brought your our 12 favorite ways to play math at home with your family.  They are activites integral to our MathWays series – a program that works with Parents and Para-Educators to teach fun, engaging and creative ways to take math outside of the classroom and make it an everyday experience for the children in their lives.  It’s part of our suite of programs here at Explorations in Math that brings a stronger math culture to our elementary school communities.  We hope you’ve enjoyed these activities with your family and will continue the math magic in 2012!

Day 12: Skip, Skip, GO!

Take this party game to your holiday revel and celebrate skip counting!

Download, print, and share this free activity with the child in your life!

If you’d like to download and share all of our 12 Days of MathWays games, check out our archive.

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!

Our second-to-last game is one you can play anywhere after mastering the rules!  This is a fun twist on a classic game, and is a great addition to our whole suite of 12 Days of MathWays activities we’ve brought you this year.

Day 11: Number Tic Tac Toe

A fun math break for the holiday season

Click to download and play with your family tonight!

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.

Click here for more information and to donate.

Our celebration continues! In our home stretch, we present to you our game for Day 10 – Horse Race.  Play with 1 player or many – this game is making great strides in math confidence!

Day 10: Horse Race

Grab some dice and this gameboard and get racing!

 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. 

Mark your calendars! Our 5^th annual fundraising dinner, Make a Move for Math, will be held on Friday, February 3, 2012 at Georgetown Ballroom!  We’re anticipating another incredible event this year at a great new location.  Learn more about the event and register today by clicking here!

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.

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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.