Partnering with parents can be a blast! In this episode Pam and Kim describe how they organize and run math nights to help parents experience mathematizing and get excited about what their students will be learning.
Talking Points:
- Typical parent math nights vs. our parent math nights
- Opportunity to share grade level or school wide expectations
- Importance of a Q & A for parents
- Help parents experience math the way their students do
- Mathematizing for parents at the "sweet spot" level of math
- Suggestions for finding Problem Strings to use at math nights
- Logistics tips for parent math night
- Advantages of a series of parent nights
