Workshop
• Warm-up activity on circles.
• Participants make their own bullseye designs,
   with video guidance.
• Participants make and decorate their own picture    frames with video guidance.
• Discuss math issues.
• Video wrap up and summary.
• Parents receive take-home kits.

Workshop Requirements

TV and a VCR
• To show the various video segments throughout the workshop.

Flat table space
• appropriate for working with clay.

Preparation
• cutting clay into small blocks
• gathering odds and ends; waxed paper, paper plates, toilet paper rolls, etc.

Participants
• parents and children of all ages. (use modeling clay for younger kids)

Take-home messages
You do math every day.
In making polyclay designs and picture frames, parents use spatial visualization and the geometry of circles—two important math concepts.

Spatial visualization and geometry are taught in middle school.
Parents build 3-dimensional objects from
2-dimensional drawings and analyze circles,
both are important in middle school geometry.

Today's classrooms are different.
In today's classrooms students learn that math is more than just numbers and calculations; it includes logic problem solving and thinking about shapes.

You can help your child with math.
Parents can help their children broaden their understanding of math by pointing out math concepts in music, art and other aspects of life.

What's Included

Paper materials
Video
Rulers, graph paper
Tape measure
Nails