A big THANK YOU! to everyone for a successful partnership program! Parents and staff worked hard to bring three areas of focus together for 1 1/2 hours of fun for all students. Math facts or number sense, measurement and geometry were the three areas each grade focused on for about 25 minutes each. Here is a synopsis of the activities.
Pocket Day: Everyone was encouraged to wear as many pockets as possible. Some students wore shorts over pants. Others made shirts covered with pockets. Kindergarten and first grade counted the number of pockets each person had and the total pockets for their class. Second and third grade looked at their class data to determine the frequency each number of pockets occurred. Fourth and fifth grade were compiling school wide data to determine the average number of pockets, class averages, pod totals, school total, mean, median, mode and more.
Sawtooth Quilts were made by the Kindergarten and first grade classes to explore shape relations. They also made 12 inch rulers using 1-inch squares for measuring.
Tangrams were featured in second and third grade for shape relations and area. Kits will be provided for all second and third grade classrooms for further exploration. They also had fun with the Minute Madness activity. Do you know how many time you can write your name, hop or the number of jumping jacks you can do in one minute? They do now and for many of them it varied greatly from their predictions.
A place value game, As Close as Possible, required the fourth and fifth graders to use logic, strategy and subtraction/addition skills to reach the lowest score. Geoboards allowed them to explore shapes, angles, area and perimeter.
Please ask your students about these activities to reinforce what they experienced. It was great to see many parents come and participate with their children as well. Thanks for making Math Fair a great experience for everyone! ~Amy
