WE WILL BE discussing and organizing a field trip to see Divergent in theatres as a special grade 7 field trip! WOOHOO! That being said, I hope you haven't gone to see it already! T-minus 5 days!
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all having a fun and relaxing spring break! As promised, I have purchased tickets to go check out the movie The Divergent this Saturday. As it turns out, the movie is rated PG so we may just be able to see it after all! No promises but stay tuned for updates! Miss. Iggy Students have been working through their math unit of probability. In order to help them conceptualize probability (and to truly understand the differences between theoretical and experimental probability) we decided to add a twist to regular old worksheets... Students partnered up and created their very own arcade games! Knowing the creative bunch of students in this class you can imagine the crazy ideas that they conjured up! Not only were students able to design their very own games but they used their creativity to actually build them too! There were spinners, mystery boxes, tinker toy wheels, card games, lollipop pulls and many more! How does math tie into this? Well they had to calculate the probabilities of their games of course! Some students even manipulated their games to change their probabilities and make them harder or easier (imagine the thinking that would have gone into that!). After the games were ready, and the prizes were in place, the grade 7's went to work playing their peers games! The best part of this was that they were asking very detailed questions to the game owners in order to calculate the probability of winning the games. Conversations such as, the total number of lollipops vs the number or winning lollipops, was a regular occurrence! Again, imagine the critical thinking skills they were able to develop and practice throughout this assignment! Students also kept track of how many people won and lost their games on games day. They then used this data in order to calculate the experimental probability of their games for comparison against their theoretical probabilities! Overall, students were engaged throughout the activity and I even overheard a few of them discussing how much it helped them understand the unit better! Music to me ears! AND of course we tweeted all about it on our class twitter account @Igglets. (Shameless plug). Check out the photos below! |