Family Math Night

Family Night Math Kit Contact List

Get everything you need for your school or parent organization to host a Family Math Event!

As part of the Idaho Math Initiative, the Idaho State Department of Education has partnered with the Micron Technology Foundation to donate Math Fun d'Mentals Family Math Night Kits to schools and districts across Idaho. We distributed 45 kits in April 2009 and are ready to distribute another 45 kits this October. These kits have been available on a first-come, first-serve basis by region.

The Math Fun d'Mentals kits help students develop their mathematical understanding through active engagement in fun activities that encourage students to build on what they already know and to verbally express how they know it. They also help to actively engage parents in their children's education.

What You Will Receive: A Math Fun d'Mentals kit includes everything you will need to host a Family Math Night - except the volunteers.

The kit includes:

• User Manual with everything you need, including:
• A DVD with instructional information
• How to organize a family math night
• Timelines for required tasks
• Helpful tips
• Activity handouts
• Seven boxes and two portfolios full of over 40 game packets, manipulatives, books and game boards needed for activities for early, middle, and upper elementary learning levels.

Volunteers Needed: Team up with your school's parent organization to organize the Family Math Night.

What your parent organization will need to do:

• Set a date
• Arrange adequate space for the event
• Recruit volunteers and provide them clear instructions
• Publicize the event
• Reprint the activities based on the number of participants you anticipate
• Pack up materials at the end of the night

Visit www.sde.idaho.gov/site/math/math_initiative.htm and check to see your district has a Family Math Night kit available! If you are interested in reserving a kit for your school’s Family Math Night, contact the district representative listed online.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact Katie Walker at kwalker@sde.idaho.gov