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MaryM
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Posted: March 02 2010 at 2:23pm \| IP Logged

Lisa B. posted this quesiton in the Pi Day thread. Thought it was a great disucssion topic. Would love to hear from Kris all about their Mathmania group. Anyone else doing a math focused club or group?

Ideas?

brabec7 wrote:

Kris,

I would love to know more about your Mathmania group. We love math here at our home! I have thought about gathering like minded kids together to play and celebrate math together. Please share what you do and how it works for your group. If you don't mind me being so bold in asking.

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I just started the Mathmania group as a way to "play" with math. We belong to a homeschool support group, the remains of what was once a weekly co-op that we decided wasn't working for our eclectic group. I posted it there and got 10 kids mostly in the 8 to 10 age range. We meet once a month and have only met twice so far (we had a snow day last month.) I come in with ideas for them to do.

The first week I brought in all my math-related board games (I have a lot!) The second week we did problems I got from Mathcounts Next week we'll have the Pi theme.

Anyone else have math clubs?

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Posted: March 05 2010 at 8:57am \| IP Logged

We have used the Living Math course as a family. I am thinking of doing them in a group setting. Anyone else use the Living Math course in a group? I would love to hear what you have learned along the way.

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Posted: March 09 2010 at 11:46am \| IP Logged

I did a math club several years ago.

It was broken down into an older and younger group. Olders were 4th-5th and youngers were 2nd-3rd. I did all the planning and a friend of mine would carry out my plans for the olders while I did the youngers at the same time so moms didn't have to come out twice.

I used lots of Scholastic teacher resource books for games and ideas. For the olders, they opened with a Fairy Tale Math problem or they'd do a Multiplication story.

Then the olders' main focus for the day would come from a project found in this 12 Real-life Math Projects book. They especially enjoyed the fantasy football. Also they kept up with the stock market each time we met too. They chose stocks at the beginning of the year, followed them throughout and then at the end of the year determined how they had done.

If there was time. the older kids would do an art project from Math Art.

For the youngers, we'd open with a Math literature book. We'd do some activity associated with the book from

this book.

Then I used a set of books from Scholastic whose series was called "Best Ever Activities for Grades 2-3". I get themes for the day and use activities from those books. There was multiplication, time & money, measurement, graphing, and addition & subtraction.

We'd spend the last 20 minutes as a free math time. They would pair up and rotate through these shoebox activities
which I put together at the beginning of the year. It was very easy and they were used over and over again.

HTH

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Posted: March 09 2010 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

Wanted to add...I think some of those books aren't available on Amazon...sorry I used them as my links. I think you can find them on scholastic.com, or at least something very similar!

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