March 18, 2011

Eastview Public School recently did its best to show parents math can be fun.

On the evening of March 3, 2011, the school held Math Night. It was a way for the school to engage parents by teaching them to better understand and see how mathematics can be enjoyable for everyone.

The kinds of math skills parents learned included non-standard units of measurement, money and making change, computational skills, patterning, measuring and estimation.

There was a classroom devoted to parents watching students play math games via computers, with the images projected onto large screens. In the school gymnasium, parents were able to interact with their children through various activities like measuring the length of their child’s body by using certain items.

Eastview Public School Principal Andrew Kaiser hopes parents learned some math strategies they can use at home.

“I hope they enjoyed hands-on math activities together,” he says.