Today we tried something fun and exciting for our students...an Amazing Race! The students spent the entire day racing around campus to different "pitstops". Each of the teachers came up with a 20 minute challenge for the students to complete and earn stamps. I loved our math challenges! The first was to fly a kite and determine the height of the kite using the Pythagorean Theorem. To do this, the students had to measure the string that was let out and the distance from the person holding the kite to the person standing underneath the kite. This proved to be difficult because of the windy day, but we provided a "detour" where the students could still complete the task.
Our second challenge was for students to calculate their rate using d=rt. They were to run the bases of the baseball field, skipping second base. We only gave them the distance between home and 3rd base and home and 1st base. They again had to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between 1st and 2nd and then calculate the total distance run. The last task was to find their group's average rate.
The students really did a great job and it was nice spending a day outside taking in the sun! Here are a few pics, with more to come!
My awesome colleague Monica who got us the cool shirts "Weapons of Math Instruction"!
My advisory team "Cute as Pi"!
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