Aiding a pilot school
In one classroom at the Gardner Pilot Academy, first-graders and their parents played Blink, an Uno-like game that teaches counting and shapes. Down the hall, fifth-graders worked through a word problem involving fractions — the sort of question that might appear on the MCAS exam — by plotting out the problem with colored fraction blocks. In another room, fourth-graders challenged their moms and dads to a game of Go Fish adapted to time telling, where players must collect matching times on both digital and analog clocks. “I keep on beating my mom!” one girl shrieked. “I think she needs to go back to math class.” The North Allston elementary school’s first Math Night, held Feb. 16, brought parents into the school for an Italian dinner and a chance to learn fun ways to practice math with their children. But the evening, sponsored by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI), also provided the...