Dear Parents,
We welcome your child and you to Math Superstars. This program is designed to enhance your child’s journey through mathematics. By expressing an interest in more challenging problem solving, your child has taken the first step toward becoming an independent learner who is capable of addressing many different types of problems.
Every Friday your child will receive a worksheet of problems. They will have until the following Friday to turn them in. Each problem is ranked according to its level of difficulty. The number of stars you see beside a problem indicates the level of difficulty and the number of stars your child can earn for solving it. On Friday morning, your child’s teacher will collect the worksheets to be graded by our volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering to be a grader, please e-mail me at
slcemss@yahoo.com.
Your role in MATH SUPERSTARS is to encourage and facilitate your child’s problem solving skills. During the week, allow time for your child to think about each problem. Your child may need you to read the problem to them, explaining any new words encountered. Feel free to recommend a strategy for solving the problem, offer “counters” or manipulatives, or listen as your child shares her or his thinking, but please DO NOT GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS. In order for this program to be successful, each student must do their own thinking.
It is normal for a child NOT to be able to complete every problem on a worksheet. The process of reading, understanding, and approaching the problems is an important step in the solving of many types of problems. Please remind your child that they are not expected to know the answer to every problem.