Families at Sir Albert Love Catholic School in Ajax spent an evening getting comfortable with numbers together, as the Durham Catholic District School Board hosted a Family Math Night at the school on Tuesday, November 10.
Principal Faria joined families for the session, which was led by DCDSB Math Lead Dan Allen and Numeracy Intervention Teacher Lisa Shaw, according to a Durham Catholic District School Board news release.
The focus was practical. Rather than worksheets or drills, the evening centred on hands-on activities families can easily recreate at home, including card and dice games, puzzles, and spatial reasoning challenges.
Parents and caregivers also picked up ideas for weaving math into ordinary conversations, the board said, with examples touching on money, measurement, sports and multiplication.
Beyond the activities themselves, the session highlighted a message the board has been promoting across its schools: that students benefit when they develop positive mindsets about math, seeing it as something to explore, understand and enjoy rather than simply endure.
That includes showing children there are multiple ways to approach and solve a problem, one of the key themes of the evening.
For families who could not attend or want to keep the momentum going at home, the board has gathered resources on its math webpage at dcdsb.ca, covering games, tips and strategies for supporting math learning outside the classroom.
Sir Albert Love Catholic School is one of the Durham Catholic District School Board's elementary schools serving the Ajax community.
