Starting Out

Pi Day Project to increase math excitement.
The students were excited, and they worked too. 

The more that I work with my wonderful co-workers and we have ideas that work well for us, the more we have talked about sharing with others. Working on a team that supports each other is a wonderful experience. We care about what the students are learning and how they are growing personally, as well as teaching each other new skills. 

Putting into words what we have been able to do is not as easy as doing it. I will try to find ways to describe what works for us in a way that may be helpful to others.  One of the under lying themes of our work is having the students work on hands on projects and giving them choices in those projects. 

Pi Day was one of those days. Students were able to work before hand on items that they choose to participate in. This day was a reward day, but it still mathematically challenging. The above was Pi based art. This student designed the poster and filled the words with the correct digits of Pi. Others recited Pi from memory, wrote Pi Poems and then they all preformed math problems using Pi. And then we ate various pie shaped foods, including pizza pie.