MATH SUPERSTARS ***MARCH 2 - MARCH 30***

Email Tracy Peel with any questions

Register Your child for the Math Superstars program

Dear Parent:

One morning a week, a half hour before drop-off, kids meet in groups of 7-10 with their group leader ( a parent volunteer) who has the kids go over last week’s problems and hands out the new assignment. The sessions last a half hour. Kids get stars for attending, and stars for trying. The groups accumulate stars for prizes.

Kids have the whole week to look at the problems and figure out the solutions. Parents’ role in Math Superstars is to encourage and facilitate their child’s problem solving skills. Feel free to suggest a strategy for solving the problem, offer counters or manipulatives, or listen as their child shares her or his thinking. Parents do not give answers. It is normal for a child NOT to be able to complete every problem on a worksheet. There are some questions every week that every child will be able to answer.

The following week, the kids return to meet for their half-hour session with their volunteer group leader, and get their next set of problems. Volunteer leaders get a cheat sheet with answers and explanations.

Not sure if this is for you?

Sample problems, by grade, are available at:

http://it.pinellas.k12.fl.us/schools/curlew-es/studentconnect/mathsuperstars/mathss.html

Our first Math SuperStars session will start Wed., March 2nd and run through Wed.,March 30. We will only be able to include grades in the program if we have a parent volunteer for the grade who can commit to running these half hour sessions before school, once a week for seven weeks (or a combination of parents volunteers who can do so).

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