MUW Center for Creative Learning

Best Practices in Education

 Parents of K-12 Students

General Resources

Helping Your Child Learn Math

This site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Most parents will agree that it is a wonderful experience to cuddle up with their child and a good book. Few people will say that about flash cards or pages of math problems. For that reason, this site offers some math activities that are meaningful as well as fun. Parents might want to try doing some of them to help their child explore relationships, solve problems, and see math in a positive light. These activities use materials that are easy to find. They have been planned so the parent and child might see that math is not just work to do at school but, rather, a part of life.

Parents for Public Schools 

Parents for Public Schools is a National organization of community-based chapters working in public schools through broad-based enrollment. Invigorated by a diverse membership, our proactive involvement helps public schools attract all families in a community by making sure all schools effectively serve all children.

The PPS Leadership Institute

The PPS Leadership Institute was launched in Fall 2004.  Modeled after the nationally recognized Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Commonwealth Institute for Parent Involvement in Kentucky, the PPS Leadership Institute provides training for parents and develops an ongoing, action-oriented, problem-solving network of parent leaders.

Mathematically Correct

This web site is devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of our schools by the New-New Math and the need to restore basic skills to math education.

The Buddy Project Family Math

Resources and activity files that have been created for families to do independently. They can also be used by teachers for classroom activites. Activities include ideas on how to set up an allowance spreadsheet, measuring area and perimeter, creating a calendar, graphing ideas, and ideas for creating logic or a pattern tables.

The Center for the Expansion of Learning and Teaching (CELT)

The primary intention of this virtual center is to help inform educators, parents and students in the Stevens Point District of new ideas and research related to selected educational innovations. Right now material in this center deals specifically to concepts revolving around Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory, as well as those related to brain-based teaching and learning. Both of these educational innovations are dedicated to helping educators and parents better understand and potentialize the natural and multiple talents of children as they learn and grow.