STEAM Challenge - Dinner Table Cube Math

Starfire knows every kid can excel at math! Math that happens within the family, the community, and everyday life supports kids to strengthen their math awareness, understanding and confidence. 

Kids can engage in vibrant and plentiful math learning opportunities, even around the dinner table! Check out the awesome challenge we've shared below!  We suggest enjoying them as a family.

We’re sharing a fun math challenge called “Cube Conversations” to promote math talk around the table from Steve Wyborney, an Oregon based math teacher.

Take a look at these increasingly challenging Cube Conversation images and ask:

• How many cubes?

• How do you know?

• What do you see?

• How else can you see it?

Starfire teachers share fun and collaborative math challenges that let kids know that they can excel in math and have fun! 

Speed vs Depth in STEAM Learning

Starfire teachers encourage depth, creativity and fluency in STEAM learning. We know that every student can be a “math person” or “science person” with the right encouragement and support!

Many students incorrectly believe that being good at STEAM learning means being fast. In our classes, we dissociate success from speed.

When we value fast computation over other skills, we discourage deep thinking, risk taking and meaningful progress. Starfire teachers teach students to think deeply, connect methods, reason, and justify their methods.