Adding Math to your Thanksgiving Fun

Thanksgiving is a great time for fun family activities like decorating your home, cooking yummy recipes and visiting family and friends. Don’t forget, it’s also a great time to sneak in some fun educational activities – we promise, your kids won’t even realize they are learning! (Well, maybe, but at least they will see that learning can be fun!) The Math-Whizz team has gathered our Top Picks for Thanksgiving activities you can do with your kids including coloring pages, word finds, baking and decorations.

Color the Cornucopia, coloring by numbers.

This is a fun activity that your kids can do at home or while traveling. Match the answers to the color key and have fun coloring by numbers! Just don’t forget to bring the crayons! Click the image to download!

Turkey Cupcakes

These turkeys don’t need to be carved, just bake, decorate and enjoy! Baking is a great way to introduce some math basics while having fun. For your younger kids start introducing terms such as measuring. For your older talk about conversions such how many half cups of flour will I need to measure out 1 cup? Get the recipe at BettyCrocker.com

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The National Parenting Center 2012 Seal of Approval awarded for Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus

We are excited to announce that Whizz Education is awarded The National Parenting Center’s 2012 Seal of Approval for Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus. The independent panel of educators and parents that identifies the best products and services for parents and children is recommending Math-Whizz because of the site’s outstanding design and quality, which is great news for Whizz Education. According to The National Parenting Center, 56 percent of moms said that these types of designations increased the likelihood they would purchase an item.

“Until recently, Math-Whizz was reserved for public and private elementary and middle schools,” explains Ben Keogh President of Whizz Education. “We are grateful that the National Parenting Center is letting parents in on a secret that schools have been using for years to improve the math mastery of their students.”
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Maximize Math-Whizz. What You Should Know!

If you have yet to take a moment and check out the content we are producing on our blog under the category “Maximize Math-Whizz” then you’re missing out on some great tips for how to make the most out of Math-Whizz! Our goal is to produce quick and insightful posts directed at parents who are invested in helping their child maximize their educational gains through a variety of features and techniques available in Math-Whizz. In our latest post you’ll learn all about the benefits of introducing your child – if they haven’t yet found it themselves! – to our Challenge Mode.

• What is Math Age™
  Unique to Math-Whizz, Math Age is an invaluable measure for mapping progress and assessing strengths and weaknesses in terms of math understanding. For each student, Math Age™ is assigned to individual topics and then is averaged for an overall composite. These numbers allow educators and parents alike to view a child’s progress.
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• Recommended Usage
  Like any good tool, Math-Whizz should be utilized properly in order to be fully effective. Luckily, Math-Whizz already comes fully assembled and there isn’t even any packaging to try and pry open! That being said, this is going to answer the important question of “how exactly should my student/child be using this tool?” While this is directed towards teachers, it is absolutely applicable to educators of all stripes as well as parents or mentors.
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What Math-Whizzers are Saying!

"My son LOVES this site. I have tried other math practice sites before but I’ve never seen anything as impressive as Math-Whizz. It doesn’t just drill them in the concepts they already know - it’s actually good enough to introduce new things before they see them in the class room. Interestingly, we use Math U See for our curriculum, and I often find that the curriculum and the website are introducing concepts at the same time. My 5 year old son is happily and eagerly doing math at a high first grade level and shows no signs of slowing down! Math-Whizz is expensive, but I told myself if he would use it, it was well worth the expense (how much do people spend on toy video games?). He begs to play it, he really does. The activities are short, which is vital at this age. They are well animated, interesting, and if he doesnt get it, the program offers help on the exercise. If he still doesn’t get it, it gently takes him back to the previous skill. The parent reporting is top notch, you can see exactly what he’s doing and where he may need a little help. The bedroom games are fun too. I have a rule that he has to earn a certain number of points before going to the bedroom, and he loves it. I’d recommend Math-Whizz to any family looking to support either a struggling learner, or one who gobbles math up.”
Terri, Co-op Member, Homeschool Buyers Co-op member.

"As a principal, I see Math-Whizz as an incredible tool for meeting student’s academic needs because it teaches students exactly what they need. I am so impressed with how engaging and useful is that I have my own sons using it at home! Both the students at my school and my own boys are greatly improving their skills and they love using Math-Whizz and doing math!"
Princpal at Cedarhurst ES, Highline, WA

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