by Kaela Williams
Edwardsville Elementary’s annual Math Night event will take place today, combining math skills and Pokemon to engage students and parents.
Math Night is a long-standing tradition in Edwardsville. It is a home-to-school connection event that invites students, families and community members to participate in math activities together, all centered on a theme. This year’s theme is Pokemon Go.
The event brings students and families together to explore all areas of math including fact fluency, problem solving, real world problems, measurement and estimation, Ann Jensen, a math instructional coach at Edwardsville Elementary, said the event sheds a new light on an often-difficult subject.
“This event motivates students to realize that math can be fun and engaging,” Jensen said. “They are likely to relate their game and event experiences to deeper math problem-solving when it is centered around a popular, trending theme like Pokemon Go. Parents are also able to see what is expected at each grade level as they visit the games and modify or extend their child’s learning throughout the night.”
The Edwardsville Elementary Pokemath event will take place from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3.
Kaela Williams is the communications coordinator at Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Public Schools.