Math "Notes"

Thursday evening the school hosted Family Math Night. Even with a bear lurking in the neighborhood, Andrew and I went (with bear spray in hand) to have fun with math.

There were six different stations. This is a picture of Andrew with his friend, Kaloni. For an hour, kids built 3-D shapes with graham crackers, frosting, marshmallows and toothpicks. They created origami boxes, tangrams art, tessellation patterns and played shape Bingo. The time flew by and we all wished it could have lasted longer.

Math at Home...It is so fun listening to Andrew remarks while he is doing his math home work, “This is cool….hey mom did you know…?” and “Ooooo, I like this one.” He has always liked math, but most so far, in his school career, the subject matter hasn’t been very challenging. Now that he is doing fourth grade math he is actually learning something and enjoying it.

Music is very mathematical and I am pleased to observe that his reaction to piano is the same as it is with his Math studies. He has arrived at the point where he is playing hands together. This union makes him so excited. He no longer has to think about the note names and his moving through his theory and the lesson books at a nice pace. He practices twenty minutes a day and never (knock on ivory) complains about it.