Lower School Math Adventures

Updates and News

• Wednesday Morning Math Problems - keep checking here!

  Posted May 14

  Here are the weekly collections of Wednesday Morning Math problems. We will post the new ones each week. Click on "read more" to access the files.

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• Wednesday Morning Math Calendar for End of Year

  Posted May 14

  It is hard to believe that another year of Wednesday Morning Math is soon coming to a close! It has been a great year, with more students and parents involved than ever before. The last regular session of Wednesday Morning Math will be on Wednesday May 21. Then please join us for an end of year WMM celebration on Wednesday May 28 – same time, same place. We will have all of our leftover problems from the year so families can take extra problems home with them for the summer. And we will have coffee and breakfast treats to celebrate our students and thank all of our incredible parent volunteers. Even if you haven’t been coming, it’s not too late – stop in sometime over the next two weeks and check out what the program is like. Thanks to all for making Wednesday Morning Math so successful. Merry Adelfio, Jenni Voorhees, and Raina Fishbane

• 125 Ways to Teach Thinking

  Posted March 12

  Presented by Lower School Faculty

  Thursday, April 3^rd

  Lower School Multipurpose Room

  7 to 9 pm

  Parents are invited to learn more about the ways teachers are promoting thinking and developing minds. Children learn so much in school -- but the most important thing they learn is how to think.
  Thinking strategies are relevant regardless of the subject matter. This event will showcase math activities on all grade levels that nurture the development of children’s thinking skills. Come gain a better understanding of how we teach mathematics and leave with a clearer sense of how our children are learning to think-- not just in math --but in every area.
  
  

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• Math Should Involve More Thinking than Remembering a Procedure

  Posted February 25

  The Washington Post recently published an article concerning schools that use Investigations in Number, Data, and Space. Merry Adelfio has written a response to this article.

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• The Math Corner: Looking for things to do over the holiday?

  Posted December 19

  Worried you won’t have enough to do over the long Winter Break? Desperate for more math? Check out the Holiday problems and new Thanksgiving problems on the Math Adventures page of the Lower School website! For those of you unfamiliar with the website, from the Lower School page, there is a link for the Math Adventures page. Click on the Frog to link to the original Math Adventures website. There you will find a huge assortment of math problems, all of the Wednesday Morning Math materials, the Math Corners from all prior Thursday Letters, lists of math resources for parents, and great math related links. You can access the site directly at http://classic.sidwell.edu/LS_Math_Adventures/ Fourth graders have also been introduced to ThatQuiz.org. This site has a wide range of choices and levels for all kinds of math thinking. The link is on all three 4th grade class pages. Third graders may want to explore this site as well. Once you select your math topic, the menu on the left allows you to select the style, level, and type of problems you want within that topic. http://www.thatquiz.org/. Have a wonderful and peaceful Winter holiday. Merry, Raina, and Jenni