Join us for an engaging webinar hosted by the NJ Family Engagement Hub and the Center for Family Math, exploring how everyday food traditions can become powerful opportunities for math learning. Building on insights from our first session on family meals and math, this conversation looks at how community spaces—especially libraries—can partner with families to highlight the math already present in cooking, preparing food, and sharing meals. Alissa Lange and Bharat Mehra from the Libraries Count! project will discuss why libraries are uniquely positioned to support family math learning through welcoming programs, stories, and hands-on activities centered around food and nutrition. Parent leaders Lora Evans, Bianca Scott, Julia Sosa, and Lilia Perez will also share personal stories about meaningful dishes from their cultures, revealing how measuring, estimating, timing, and adapting recipes naturally bring math to life for children.
Through storytelling, discussion, and audience participation, this session invites practitioners to reflect on how they can recognize and celebrate the math embedded in families’ cultural knowledge. Participants will leave the webinar with concrete ideas for family math workshops that can be held in their own communities. Join us to explore practical ways libraries and families can work together to make math learning more visible, meaningful, and joyful—one recipe at a time.
Translation into Spanish is available for this webinar.
