Welcome to another episode of the Mathlete Show. Your hosts this week, “Arnold Schwarzenegger” and “Blaze” talk about the gold medal performance by Shaun White in the 2010 winter Olympics. They also explain how to estimate the measurement of objects. Enjoy! * * To watch some video clips of halfpipe snowboarding tricks, including the 1260 [...]

We have been learning about shapes in math. Why are shapes important to know? Well, because they are all around us and we use them to build and design things. The shapes we learned about are (mostly) polygons. A polygon is a closed shape with three or more straight lines. They have different names depending [...]

Last Wednesday we had a snow day. Snow days are one of the most exciting things about wintertime in Connecticut. When The roads are too slippery for the buses, school gets canceled and the students (and teachers!) get a surprise day off. Our friend Mrs. Yollis suggested that we write a post about snow days [...]

The Mathlete Show is back in action with a special Super Bowl edition about probability. Your hosts this week, “Albert Einstein” and “Pocahontas”, explain some of the ways the New Orleans Saints won the big game even when the probability was low. Enjoy! Can you think of other times in sports when things happen even [...]

We have finished our social studies unit on local Native Americans, but here is one more VoiceThread from our learning. (The last slide on this VoiceThread is a short video. To make it play, slide the video ball back to the beginning and it should play smoothly.) Even though our unit is done, we can [...]

We learned a lot from our first experiment of building boats. We learned which materials worked best. We learned why some materials were better than others, and we also learned which shapes worked better than others. Scientists always learn from their experiments! We were able to spend 16 “science credits” on the materials we thought [...]

Next month on March 3rd students from all over the world will solve math problems online to try to set a new world record. Last year 2 million students from 204 countries answered 452,681,681 questions correctly! We are going to do our part to set a new world record this year. The World Maths Day [...]

Here is a “wordle” of some of our thoughts about our class. A wordle is artwork made up of text. If a word is repeated, it gets bigger. This wordle is made from the students’ names and their answers to these three questions: How would you describe our class? How would you describe our learning? [...]