During the second last week of August I was lucky enough to be a part of Math E Motion - A week long camp for teachers and students (in Grades 6-9) which focused on teaching and learning through problem solving. The culminating activity for the students was a hands on project that was based on a math problem they had chosen earlier on in the week. The students picked "Under The Sea" as the theme for all of their projects. They showed these problems to their peers, parents and friends at an afternoon long "Math Fair."
Over the course of the 5 days, they worked together in partners to take the problem off the paper and make it come to life. In total there were 18 different projects. Each pair had different strengths and weaknesses, and each pair was also working at different academic levels. The end results were nothing short of spectacular! The students really worked hard, and put forth some excellent work. Should the program run again next summer, I highly recommend participating in it. You will be glad that you did. If you want to run a "Math Fair" in your school, or have questions about it, please let me know. I'd love to work with you to make one happen!
This problem was finding out the minimum number of moves you needed to make to cut off the dragon's heads and tails - For if you made one cut, one or two more things could grow.
Probability and logical reasoning are at the heart of this activity where you had to guess which box had 2 blue balloons, 2 pink balloons and 1 blue and 1 pink balloon.
For this game you have to place the numbers 1-8 in a row to find out what the greatest possible sum could be for each row.
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