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What does MATH look like when it takes over your school?
DISCOVER the CMC MATHEMATICS FESTIVAL PROGRAMS for your Students, Teachers, and Families...and see for yourself!
◊ Click below for a CMC Math Festival MOVIE
Celebrate Mathematics with a CMC Math Festival Program!
The California Mathematics Council is pleased to announce a wonderful way to celebrate mathematics in your school: the CMC Mathematics Festival Program. Now, in addition to our professional development conferences for educators, CMC offers a hands-on, fee-for-service program that can reach EVERY K?8 student at your school, and can include coordinated programs for teacher professional development and outreach to families as well.
 What is a Math Festival?
A CMC Mathematics Festival is an exciting school-wide event to expose students, teachers, and parents to key critical mathematics topics in a positive, self exploratory, festival-like atmosphere. The Mathematics Festival program is designed for ready access to Kindergarten through 8th grade students with activities and challenges appropriate for ALL those grades. A CMC Math Festival is good mathematics, Standards based, AND FUN!
The Standards Come Alive!
Your students can experience the Standards first-hand at a Math Festival. Each of the three CMC Mathematics Festivals consists of 12 to 18 different problem solving activity stations, each focusing on one or more key math concepts from the California Mathematics Standards. Each Station has 12 to 16 different math tasks to meet all students? abilities and skills, Kindergarten through 8th grade.
There are currently 3 different Math Festivals to choose from:
ALGEBRA,
GEOMETRY,
or NUMBER.
Hands-on for K-8 Grades!
Math Festival stations are multi-graded and highly interactive. At stations students use everything from blocks and beans to laptop computers to solve tasks. For instance in the Algebra Festival, at one station students make algebraic function patterns out of CUBES, while at another station they solve simultaneous equations with two unknowns using BEANS. Each station offers challenging tasks of differing levels of difficulty; some are easy enough for young primary students; some are hard enough to challenge adults. During a session, students working in pairs can solve many problems and visit many Math Festival stations.
Involve Parents, Guardians, and Families!
Welcome your community to an Family Mathematics Festival and make a point about math. Your school can combine a student Mathematics Festival with a CMC Family Mathematics Festival that same evening or host a stand-alone family event. Students can bring their whole families and work side-by-side with family members in doing the problem solving activities. Give mothers, fathers, guardians, and whole families an opportunity to enjoy mathematics together and learn about the mathematics their students study at school. Family Mathematics Festivals can provide the meaningful parent outreach and involvement that is now required by many state and federally funded programs. Reach out to your whole school community, and share the beauty and power of mathematics!
Show Teachers How to Make the Excitement Last All Year Long!
The Math Festival experience can also include a CMC teacher professional development workshop to further extend the Math Festival station concepts and materials. CMC's Math Festival Presenters can show your K?8 teachers how to take the Math Festival materials and extend the learning all year long by using them as stations, activities, and structured lessons in their own classrooms.
Your School Receives Festival Printed Curriculum Materials!
Every school that hosts a Math Festival receives a complete set of the Festival's printed curriculum materials for that Festival's topic. These Math Festival materials are designed to help your school extend the learning and excitement of your Math Festival long after your event! The printed Math Festival materials include copies of EVERY task at every Math Festival station, the Math Festival instruction posters for each activity, Spanish translations of the instructions, lists of the materials needed for each station, and answers to most of the Math Festival problems. The materials we leave behind are so complete your school could even host YOUR OWN Math Festival, and several schools have done so!
Students Solve Problems at a Math Festival!
Here is a sample problem solving task card from the Algebra Corrals station of the ALGEBRA MATH FESTIVAL?one of over 200 problems at a Math Festival:
Send a Math Message to Your Whole School Community!
For the greatest impact, consider offering a student Math Festival, an evening Family Mathematics Festival, and an after-school Math Festival in-service workshop for teachers all in the same day! CMC Math Festivals can promote increased awareness of critical mathematics topics and the importance of mathematics learning for all students, while providing K?8 student involvement, teacher professional development, and parent outreach in a fully coordinated package. Each CMC Mathematics Festival can provide a rich, enjoyable learning experience with a lasting impact for your entire school community.
Satisfies State and Federal Program Requirements!
CMC Math Festival programs are highly appropriate for state and federal programs requiring whole school and parent involvement. You can utilize a portion of your Title I funds for staff development and parent outreach as required by most state and federal programs. We urge you to include a CMC Mathematics Festival Program in your Single School Plan or Title I Improvement Plan.
CMC Math Festival Costs & Expenses*
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K?8 Student Math Festival (up to six sessions in a regular 6 hour day) |
$2000 |
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Family Math Festival (takes place the same evening as student Festival) |
$700 |
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Teacher Math Festival Professional Development Workshop (after the student Math Festival and within the teaching contractual day) |
$800 |
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Family Math Festival (without student Math Festival/Saturdays or evenings) |
$1500 |
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*Plus travel related expenses. Detailed cost estimate available upon request. |
For more information, or to host any of the
please contact:
Paul Giganti
CMC Math Festival Director
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