Math Superstars

1.  How it works

1. Pick a worksheet from your child’s grade level below. Print it, or pick up a copy from the front office.
2. Your child completes it at home, showing their work.
3. Turn it in to your child’s classroom teacher. There is no need to wait — worksheets can go in as soon as they are finished.
4. The points are added to your child’s running total, and the graded packet comes back to them.
5. Four times a year, parent volunteers pick up everything that has been turned in and grade it. Stars then go up on the Math Superstars board in the cafeteria, and prizes are handed out as students reach each tier.
6. Points build up all year long. They do not reset, so a student who starts in January still gets full credit for everything they turn in.

2.Points

That is twelve worksheets and 450 points available per grade level across the year. Scoring is partial credit — a Superstar is out of 50 and a Starburst out of 25, and you earn what the work earns.

Show your work. An answer with no work shown earns half credit — we care much more about the thinking than the number at the end.

3. Worksheets by grade

All worksheets are posted from the first day of the program. There is no waiting for the next packet — work ahead as far as you like.

Answer keys are not posted. They go to the grading volunteers only. Your child’s graded packet comes back to them after each round, with the points marked on it.

Working above or below grade level is allowed and encouraged. A 2nd grader who wants to try the Grade 3 Starbursts is welcome to — points are awarded at the value printed on the sheet.

4.Pickup dates

Turn worksheets in to your child’s teacher any time. Four times a year, on the pickup dates below, our parent volunteers collect everything that has been turned in and grade it. Anything handed in after a pickup date simply rolls into the next round.

Math Superstars Celebration: Thursday, May 13, 2027. Every student who turned in at least one worksheet is recognized.

5.Prizes

Every tier includes everything from the tiers below it.

And one more, which has nothing to do with your score: finish all twelve worksheets and you join the HALL OF STARS. It does not matter how many points you earned — it only matters that you finished every one.

6.A note for parents

• The most useful thing you can do is ask questions instead of giving answers.
• Ask “what do you already know?” and “what have you tried?” before anything else.
• Let them be stuck for a while. Stuck is where the learning happens.
• Let them make mistakes and find them. A wrong answer they caught themselves is worth more than a right one you handed over.
• If a problem is genuinely too hard, it is fine to set it aside and move to another sheet.
• Please do not give your child the answer or show them exactly how to solve it. The points are not the point — the thinking is.

7.Parent Volunteers

This program only works if grading is shared. We are looking for two parent volunteers per grade level.

8.Questions

Email Shaili Shah at mathsuperstars@ogepta.com.