My students need Olympic fitness-inspired math materials including giant foam dice, Osmo Numbers, crayons, Expo markers, various sized cubes, jump ropes, agility rings, packing peanuts, table tennis sets, and agility ladders.
I teach an exciting, motivated, and creative group of fifth grade students. My student population is very diverse. I have some who are special needs students and are working below grade level, while others need to extend their thinking and apply the skills they have mastered in meaningful ways.
My students enjoy coming to school each day and learning from each other.
They use their critical thinking skills to ask good questions and analyze information. They are creative and become excited any time we can incorporate movement and novelty into our lessons.
My Project
This year the Olympics are not only in Rio, but they will be happening at my school as well!
This kid-inspired project builds on my students' enthusiasm for the Olympics and has them creating their own "Olympic Math Games" in our classroom.
These games will tie our curriculum to activities that will help my students become more active each day. Putting our curriculum to movement helps my students build healthy habits that will last them a life time. My students will use the requested giant foam dice, Osmo Numbers, crayons, Expo markers, various sized cubes, jump ropes, agility rings, packing peanuts, table tennis sets, and agility ladders in many ways.
Here is a sampling of the games students will create: Swatting the foam dice over the jump ropes and recording their scores with the Expo markers to determine who went the highest. Tossing the packing peanuts into the agility rings to see how many peanuts make it into the rings from various distances. Completing challenges with Osmo Numbers and jumping rope 15 times between rounds. They’ll record their times & see who has the fastest time. Playing table tennis & multiplying their score by their class number with the expos on the white boards. Running the agility ladder courses while reciting their multiplication tables. Using the crayons in their math journals to record & reflect on the Math Olympics. Creating tall towers with the cubes and recording their tallest attempt.
This project increases peer-to-peer interactions in many ways. First students must work together to help design stations for our Math Olympics. Next, they will work together in teams to compete in the challenge, cheering on each others’ successes and coaching when needed. At the end of our Olympics students will award medals to the winners of each game.
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