What do you get when you cross math with fun? Arithmetickles.

What do you get with amazing experiments conducted by a fun guy? Mad Science.What happens when you open a book? You learn Reading is Magic.All of these riddles were solved at Pleasant Valley's Family Math, Reading and Technology Night for grades K-6, held at Pleasant Valley Elementary School on Oct. 16.Arithmetickles is an interactive game show that combines math and fun. It is produced by the Children's Theatre Center of New Jersey and performs all over the country.Ben Ben-Dor, the host of the show, invited several children from the audience to participate in fun activities that demonstrated numbers, shapes, percentages, fractions and logic by using imagination and humor.The Mad Science show's Bill Petterson transformed laboratory science into fun, interactive learning experiences for kids and brought amazement and wonder of all things science.In the Reading is Magic show, it blended magic, comedy and puppetry to explain the importance of learning to read, reading to learn and reading for pleasure. All the children who attended received free books.There were several activities and games set up at tables throughout the school's hallways and there were even free hot dogs."The event is an evening where we come together as a community to learn math, science, reading and technology and can do it together as a family," said Erica Greer, PVE's principal.