Monday, August 11, 2008

Where has the time gone?

I can't believe another week has passed. Time is flying, and I am so proud of all of the hard work of our summer school students. This past week in math, we covered a lot of fractions. Students were busy with projects, which I will try to post soon.

Each student was given several pattern blocks. Students had to identify the fraction each piece represented. They were given a goal to create a picture or design using the pattern blocks. The only limits were that all four shapes had to be used and the picture must have a sum of 12. I am so impressed by what all of the students did! Here are some pictures...I am so proud of your creativity!

We are working hard at adding and subtracting fractions, and we are about to use fractions with our geometry unit. We will also be watching some of the Olympics and gathering and analyzing scores from various events.

Do you ever notice how much math is used in the Olympics? Where do you see math being used?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

were i seen math is when there swimming to tell the time and the score


justin s

Anonymous said...

math is used to keep the score and points.

christopher paull

Anonymous said...

math is youed in the olmpiks is to measurenent saviou salim

Anonymous said...

the time like when you are swimming perry d

Anonymous said...

the time




marquse lockett

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Anonymous said...

it is used when they have tally scores for gymnastics and for smiming to see how fast they swam

Anonymous said...

were i saw math being used is when they swim for the time and the score



kaytlyn d

Anonymous said...

when i see math its when the swimming is over you have to use math to get the score and time right.

Anonymous said...

math is used to keep the time and score recorded

brandon k

Anonymous said...

where I saw math being used was when I was at the store with my mom...

Claudia F.
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Anonymous said...

i see math being used when the tell the time and when they get the score :)


Nicole M. is awesome!!!!!

Anonymous said...

i seen math in the swimming part but really dident watcht he hole thing but im sure they have to use math to figger out the time they have been swimming and to see how they have won!!!


K.S.

Anonymous said...

swimming and math with the time and all the running

Anonymous said...

i THINK THAT SWIMMMING HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH SCORES.

Anonymous said...

they use math to mesure the lenght of the pool kieran (mr fresh 2 def)rogers

Anonymous said...

TRoy.W it is used at the long jump they use it to no how far they jump

Anonymous said...

math is used to count the toatal amount of points the teams got




devin k