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Family Math Toolbox

Parent-Reviewed Activities, Resources, & Tips

We have collaborated with our Parent Advisory Council to gather some of the best tools for parents, families, and educators to use when practicing or talking about Family Math. If you have an idea for something we should add to this library, get in touch with us at info@familymath.org.

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Explore the Family Math Toolbox

  • Storytime Connections (Silicon Valley YMCA)

    Help children learn math through storytelling. Thematic curriculum units and activity ideas that combine math and storytelling. Resources available in English and Spanish.

  • Teaching Math to Young Children Toolkit

    Activity notes, videos, professional development for early childhood educators for math related to number sense and counting

  • Math Activities for Indigenous Educators and Students

    These resources are suggested math activities that are culturally relevant in Indigenous cultures, and provide context for how Indigenous cultures use math. This site is curated by Nadine McSpadden, an Aboriginal Ed Helping Teacher in Surrey, British Columbia. It contains a wide range of information and activities for integrating indigenous practices and content. It is important to avoid appropriation of indigenous knowledge and culture by doing your own learning around the cultures you are bringing into the classroom, by connecting with your own land and indigenous leaders and elders and by avoiding tokenistic “one-off” type projects/lessons that do not connect to the living cultures. Families should engage in also learning about these specific cultures.

  • STEMEarly’s “STEM in Black” Kit

    These math kits allow for engagement, interaction, and conversation about STEM, particularly math, and racism and identity.

  • Count Play Explore: Engaging Families, Communities, and Learning Settings in Math and STEAM

    Webinar that highlights CPE’s math and STEAM resources available to educators and families.

  • University of Florida: Printable Math Cards

    This is a set of cards that families can use to play games or do activities that reinforce early math concepts.

  • Illinois State Board of Education: Kindergarten Individual Development Survey

    Videos and resources in English and Spanish to support families with early childhood math

  • Recording of symposium talk from 2024 and resources for parents/ caregivers

    This is a recording from the 2024 symposium, in which Courtney Fox focused on family and community involvement.

  • Resources for families about math and supporting your child with math

    Family math resources from Australia in the form of information for parents/caregivers in the form of text, websites, videos.

  • Council of Great City Schools: Spanish Guidance for Parents and Caregivers about Common Core State Standards in Math

    These Spanish Parent for Math Common Core Standards, created by the Council of Great City Schools, provide guidance to parents about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning in grades K-12.

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