Four more workshops are in development, and should be ready in the spring of 2000. If you'd like to conduct a workshop with a group of parents you know, give us a call . Building a Planter Box Parents and children work in groups to design and build a wooden planter box they can use to garden at home. Requires some effort getting local lumber yards or construction sites to donate scrap lumber. Math topics include two and three-dimensional visualization.
Parents see how many different kinds of math can be used to solve a problem. .
Nutrition Label Participants learn to read the Nutrition Label and use that understanding to play a game. Math topics include computation. Parents see how math concepts can be learned while solving a real-world problem. Shop Around A fun game based on grocery shopping. Players work in teams to make decisions about what to buy, how much is needed and where to buy it.