Frank E. Woodruff Elementary School
Bellflower, CA
From the end of January until the beginning of April, students got to “go for the gold” in the school’s first-ever Math Olympics Challenge. Whoever completed a regularly held, timed drill of math facts with 100 percent accuracy received a gold medal at a biweekly morning flag ceremony... At the end of the 10 weeks, 450 children had received gold medals. More...
Marilyn Yassin, ATP Facilitator
562-795-0681 marilynyassin@gmail.com
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Grasonville Elementary School
Grasonville, MD
At Grasonville Elementary, the Family Math Night focusing on money skills—spending, saving, earning, reaching financial goals—said a lot about student and family interest and about the Parent Involvement Committee’s (PIC) ability to put together a successful academic night... Family Math Night took the form of a game and a challenge, with the students setting financial goals and the adults serving as financial advisors. Each student received a wallet with $20 in play money and a form to keep track of their earnings and expenditures. More...
Gladys Nemecek, Parent Coordinator
410-827-8070 nemecekg@QACPS.k12.md.us
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Virgie Robinson Elementary School
Pasco, WA
Dressed in autumnal costume, students and parents from Virgie Robinson Elementary picked up lessons in the pounds and perimeters of the pumpkin patch, insights into pattern theory relevant to the arrangement of orange and red and yellow chocolate candies, and other math skills when they dropped by last October’s Harvest Math Night. More...
Valerie Adams, Math Coach/ATP Co-Chair
509-543-6086 vadams@psd1.org
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Elmwood Elementary School
Naperville, IL
Penny by penny, children brought in their coins from home every day for two weeks in the school’s second year of the It Just Makes Cents donation drive. After the two weeks ended, students had contributed several thousand dollars to the school’s own Candy Cane Caring program, which identifies and raises money to assist Elmwood’s needy families. More...
Debbire Montrost, SFCP Co-Chair
630-717-0223 dmontrose@wowway.com
Type 6 | Elementary | Math
Birdneck Elementary School
Virginia Beach, VA
Make A Math Date with Your Child invited parents into mathematics classes to see the skills that teachers taught at various grade levels, to learn the math objectives for each grade, and to observe their children’s strengths and weaknesses. Parents were also invited to have lunch with their children either before or after class. More...
Wendee Long, Parent Involvement Coordinator
757-648-2120 Ext. 53448 wendee.long@vbschools.com
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Centreville Elementary School
Centreville, MD
Looking to revitalize the school’s annual family math night, the Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) demonstrated to parents that many tools for reinforcing their children’s basic math abilities were available in their own homes. Split into small play groups and accompanied by their parents, 65 children in grades Pre-K–2 engaged in some friendly competition over games such as UNO, Yahtzee, Chutes and Ladders, and dominoes. More...
Linda Gent, Reading Specialist
410-758-1320 Gentl@qacps.k12.md.us
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Newtown Elementary School
Virginia Beach, VA
Follow the Liter. Balancing Act. Angles, Angles, Angles. Estimation Station. Time Concentration. What do all these things have in common? If you guessed that they all have something to do with math skills, you would be . . . close. You might have to be a maniac, however, to think that these were the names of engaging games and activities—unless, this March, you attended Newtown Elementary’s Measurement Mania. More...
Molly Wilson, Math Resource Teacher
757-648-3120 Molly.Wilson@VBSchools.net
Type 4 | Elementary | Math
Bel Air Elementary School
Cumberland, MD
Bel Air is one of a large number of schools that participate in St. Jude’s Math-a-Thon, a fund-raising drive for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Every March, students in grades K–5 solicit pledges from their families and the Bel Air community. After acquiring pledges, students receive workbooks of math problems. More...
Janice Shoup, NNPS Team Chair
301-729-2992 janice.shoup@acps.k12.md.us
Type 6 | Elementary | Math