Awesome Squiggles Grades 4 and 5

The fourth and fifth grade students have created some amazing pieces of art from their four squiggles.  Check out the presentation below to see a brief snapshot of the process and their amazing creativity!

Awesome Squiggles Presentation 2017

Build Me If You Can - Day Two

Students looked for and made sense of structure today as they created triangles that were 1/3 green and 2/3 yellow. They determined that each triangle was exactly 4 times larger than the previously created triangle. You know a lesson was successful when there is a collective "NOOOOOOO" heard when they were told that it was time to clean up. They could have continued exploring this math concept all day long!

Third Grade Explores Visual Models

This week's third grade math task challenged students to visualize and model the inherent structure of fractional relationships utilizing Cuisinare Rods. 

Awesome Squiggles

The fourth and fifth grade students are very excited to participate in the Awesome Squiggles project. Classrooms from around the world are participating in this collaborative project focused on developing global citizenship by broadening our individual perspectives. This week the students were challenged to create an original piece of art that incorporates the four random "squiggles" shown below. 

In April, we will share their masterpieces with our partner classroom via a Google Handout. However, we don't know where in the world our partner classroom is located! To add to the excitement, we will be challenged to pinpoint the location of our new friends by asking them a series of "yes" and "no" questions. Please check back often for updates and feel free to follow this project on Twitter at hashtag #awesomesquiggles.

Build Me - If You Can

These students are refining their understanding of fractions while also developing their ability to prove a mathematical concept using a visual model.

Which One Doesn't Belong?

These young mathematicians were challenged to construct a viable argument that would convince their peers why a particular shape did not belong in the given set. The justifications were quite impressive. 

It's Testing Day - Grade 2

The second graders were very excited to present their Bee Bot tracks today. Every team successfully met the criteria and constraints of the challenge! Check out this video and the pictures below of these aspiring computer programmers hard out work.

What Time Should I Get Up???

Have you ever wanted to know what collaborative problem solving looks like? Take a peek at these fourth and fifth grade students tackling a mathematical task involving elapsed time, fractions, and lots of critical thinking!

It's Elementary!

The focus of this weeks kindergarten math extension class was  how to "show their thinking" on paper using numbers, pictures, and words. Check out these young mathematicians hard at work!