– Family Math and Science Night –
February 4, 2009

Carlson's Family Math and Science Night included an exciting variety of science activites set up in the gym by the Museum of Science and History as well as computer math games on interactive whiteboards in classrooms. Carlson families turned out in large numbers for this event.

Captions for the pictures below were provided by Carlson fourth- and fifth-graders.

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This is a cup-stacking activity to see how the cups rely on each other to make a structure. A.J. is building a structure. In the end, it all fell down. (A.J.)
Here, in the Carlson library, our math coach, Arthur Harris, is showing kids and their parents the eTools CD and telling us what to do when we go home and put the CD in our computer. (Holly and Lindsay)
Fifth-grader Caroline helps her preschool brother Jacob make a flyer to fly above the air machine. (Caroline)
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George and his mother Loudres are trying to build a tall castle. What they did was stack in a straight line, but when it was time to go the whole thing fell down right into pieces. (George)
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In Shanna's classroom, you were playing Envision Math games on the Promethean board. In this game, Noah was adding or subtracing, using fractions or whole numbers, so the monkey could get to the pineapple on the number line. (Turner)
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