As much as possible, I like to give kids a chance to put their math skills to work within the context of a project. This gives them a chance to work on the application of their knowledge and learn to budget their time to complete a longer-term assignment. At the end of last semester, 5th grade was given the task to create the largest enclosure possible for an animal at our newly created zoo. Given restrictions of fencing materials (basically being told the perimeter,) students had to use their math calculations to create the largest space for their animal as well as do research on their animal to make recommendations on what to include into that habitat. As an added challenge, they had to use their art skills to draw their animal and math skills to create a scaled replica of their proposed enclosure. Each student had to present to our "zoo committee" for final approval. Check out some of their hard work in the pictures here and see all of their creativity in the photo section of the website.
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Ethan (lukes friend)
4/23/2014 09:36:18 am
Luke, nice job on your panda reasearch, but whats with that smile
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