Our Math Mania Night is coming April 6th

Dear Westminster Families,

On Thursday, April 6th, 2017 we will be having our Family Math Night: Mathemania. We are excited to continue our learning together as a community. This experience is for families with children of all ages K-8. We hope you can join us!

Focus: Mathematical Experiences
Date: Thursday, April 6th, 2017
Time: 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner pizza/snacks for sale (while supplies last)
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Learning Overview Assembly
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Learning Activity Stations

Our Family Math Night offers you an opportunity to experience a variety of hands-on math activities with your child in a cooperative and fun environment! Get ready to have some fun and learn a few things too! Activities will range from Art, Math games, physical activities and much more. There are activities for ALL grade levels! There will be six stations in which you will be able to flow freely. After you have visited them you will get a stamp on your passport Your completed passport will allow you to enter a fantastic prize draw.

The stations include:
- Mathletics (Math in Sport),
- STEM (Math in Science)
- Playground (Math in Games)
- Art/Music (Creative Math)
- Mathematizing your Your World (How to see Math in the world around us)
- Problem Solving (Math Word Problems)

Hope to see you all there!!

Please return below if you will be purchasing a pizza dinner for your family:

Family Name: _______________________________
# of people attending: _____________________

We will be purchasing #______________________ pizza slices ($2 each)
Water bottles # ________________________ ($1 each)

****Please note food is available while supplies last.****

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