FAMILY MATH NIGHTS

Host a Math Festival for your Family Math Night. Math Festivals help students build confidence, joy, and a sense of belonging around math. At a Math Festival, students and families explore a variety of hands-on, play-based math puzzles and games.

We help communities across the country host Math Festivals in three ways:

1) Hire JRMF
2) Purchase a Kit
3) Use our free DIY guides

Read below for more information, or set up a free consultation with us to discuss how we can best support your community: jrmf.org/consult

Three Ways to Host a Math Festival

Hire JRMF

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or Vancouver, CA, we can host a Math Festival at your school. We bring all the supplies, lead a volunteer training, set up, and make sure your event runs smoothly.

Cost: $800, with financial assistance available for Title 1 schools.

Click here to set up a free consultation with us and learn more.

Purchase a Kit

Our Math Festival Kits come with reusable, hands-on supplies for 10 different activities that can serve over 100 students at one time. We purchase and sort manipulatives, print and organize documents, and prepare all your Math Festival materials so that you can host a festival right out of the box.

Click here to learn more and purchase your own Math Festival Kit.

Use Free DIY Guides

Even if you don't live in our area or have the funds to purchase a kit, we can help you host a Math Festival.

Scroll down to download our free DIY Math Festival Planner, in which you'll find guides for setting up your space, working with volunteers, and using our math puzzles and games.

Or click here to set up a free consultation and discuss how we can help.

Steps to Hosting a Math Festival

Meet with Us

Start your event planning by setting up a free consultation with us. We'll share everything you need to know to host a successful Math Festival and answer any questions you may have. You can set up a free consultation by going to jrmf.org/consult.

Pick a Date

The next step is to pick a date and time for your event. We can host a Math Festival during the day as an assembly or after school as a family math night. Events can take place on any day of the week (including weekends) and at any time.

Find Helpers

The average Math Festival needs 10-20 volunteers from your community. Volunteers can be parents, teachers, or older students (as young as 4th or 5th graders). There's no background required for volunteers, just a desire to share joyful math with kids.

ADDITIONAL MATH FESTIVAL RESOURCES

Register Your Math Festival & Set Up a Custom Webpage

When you register your math festival with us, you’ll receive the following for free:

A registration link that you can share with your attendees
A custom url and webpage on our website that you can share with your attendees (example)

You’ll also help us measure our impact as an organization and join hundreds of other festival hosts around the world who are working together to share the joy of math. Even if you don’t use the free resources above, we highly encourage you to register your festival with us!

REGISTER YOUR FESTIVAL TODAY

Create a Math Festival Flyer Using our Template

Customize a Math Festival flyer using our English and Spanish templates below. All of the text in the templates is included as an example, so please feel free to change any of the text to better fit your event.

In order to use the templates below, you’ll need a Canva account, but it’s free to create a Canva account if you don’t already have one.

After making your edits, click on the “Share” button in the top right, click on “Download,” and choose your file type to download your new flyer. We recommend saving your flyer as pdf for printing.

Download a Sample Floor Plan

Download our sample floor plan for a 10 activity Math Festival here.

Don’t hesitate to make adjustments to this sample floor plan as every space is a little different, and you may have more or fewer activities at your festival. Even though your festival may not look exactly like this one, this floor plan is a great place to get started as you plan on how to arrange your Math Festival space.

Apply for Financial Assistance

Need help funding your math festival? JRMF along with two of our partner organizations offer scholarships and grants to help make your event as affordable as possible:

JRMF offers grants through its Math Festival Grant Fund. Any Title 1 school in Monterey or the San Francisco Bay Area is eligible to apply. If your school receives a Math Festival Grant, JRMF will cover 100% of the cost of hosting a math festival. A trained JRMF team member will bring all of the supplies to your school, set up, lead a volunteer training, and make sure your event runs as smoothly as possible. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Math Medic Foundation offers a grant for school-wide initiatives, like math festivals, that support students’ math education. The next deadline for this grant is Apr 24, 2023 and applicants will be notified of decisions by May 19, 2023.
CMC’s Student Activity Trust Fund offers a scholarship for school-wide organized math activities, including math festivals. CMC’s scholarship covers up to half the cost of a math festival, and applications for their scholarship are reviewed every January and September.

Download our (free!) DIY Festival Planner

Testimonials

Jackie Doenges

6th Grade Math Teacher

”I love JRMF for providing rich experiences to students. I appreciate the shift over the last few years to reach more students.

I hosted a festival last year and over 600 students attended. As I read over students’ reflections of the festival, they loved the challenges and different activities. It was such a success that my principal wants it to become a yearly tradition, and other leaders in our district want to bring math festivals to their schools as well. Thanks JRMF for creating such a wonderful experience for children. I can’t wait to host another festival.”

Alexis

Student, Age 7

“It’s fun to hang out with kids and play games, and I enjoy discovering new games. I like meeting all the new people and also like having a challenge. It also inspires me to make a remake of those games and try different versions. And I love coming here because it’s fun.”

Alexis Schulze Grace

Parent

”We love that it is something that the whole family can enjoy. I have a 9-year-old who is taking Algebra 1 this year, and she loves all the puzzles and games, and there are even games that my 2nd grader loves. Plus my husband and I also enjoy getting in on the fun. It is truly an event for everyone!”

Jack Lynch

Math Specialist

All I had to do was get people to come and our school donated a seriously negligible amount. I refuse to run one of these on my own ever again…not having to organize materials makes this worth it by itself, and it is so much more. I have a second one planned, and rather than stressing like the first, I’m authentically looking forward to it.

Kendra Lockman

Parent

“When I asked my 8 year old if he wanted to go to a math festival, I got a rather tepid, “Um… maybe? How long is it?” When I told him 1 hour and 45 minutes, he was like, “What???!! That’s almost two hours of my life wasted on MATH!”

We asked some friends to come along, and we ended up staying until we got booted out at the end of the event.

Total success.”

Alanna Callaway-Wilson

Elementary School Principal

Host one! The buzz in our classrooms (where we held the festival) was very positive. It was fun to see families play together and to participate alongside them.

Sikimeti Ma’u

Math Professor

“There were kids who love math from all over the metropolitan area, and a lot more kids who hate math but who had been coerced by their parents into coming. The most amazing thing was that they all loved it, and all had a blast, and you couldn’t tell who was who.”

Check Out Our Favorite Activities

Click on the "Festival Guide" button to download a free activity guide, with connections to state standards, instructions, and puzzles.

Pentominoes

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