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Students Discover that Math is Magical! All Washington students had an opportunity to participate in several math-related activities on a day called Magical Math Day. First graders were paired up with third graders and second graders were paired up with fourth graders to participate in two projects that showed them how much fun math can be. Kindergarten students had a chance to learn about the ways math impacts their lives as well. The day culminated with a program in the Multi-Purpose Room, featuring Margaret Hooten, who took a musical look at how much fun math can be! |
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Who is coming to
Washington and what is he bringing with him? |
Why, it's Officer
Dean Cristiano from the Bethel Park Police Department and he has
something top-secret in the briefcase! |
 Mr.
Dressler shows the class the secret contents of the briefcase.
He tells the students it is the same material that the planet
Mars is made of. |
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 Is it a liquid or a solid? It's Oobleck and it's made from cornstarch, water and food coloring and he shows the students how they can use their math skills to make it.
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Students work in small groups and take turns stirring the
Oobleck ingredients. After they're done making the Oobleck,
they discuss the scientific properties of it and then they
listen to a Dr. Seuss story about the substance called
"Bartholomew and the Oobleck." |
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 Other students study money, using their math skills to figure out what items are a "better buy." |
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 Mrs. Nath teaches students about architecture. They look at some of the biggest buildings in the world, including the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and other skyscrapers to see what geometric shapes these buildings resemble. |
 The students are then given bags filled with marshmallows and toothpicks and are asked to design a skyscraper using these two items. |
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 Other students get the opportunity to use their geometry skills to design buildings to populate fictional towns such as "Geoville" and "Shapesburgh." Some of the buildings the students make include a shoe store, sporting goods store, chocolate factory and a fast food restaurant. See if you can identify some of the buildings in the following pictures! |
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 Some students learn about length by comparing each other's shoes. |
 Others learn about counting and tallying, using fruit snacks. |
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 The following students had the opportunity to learn about length by tracing themselves on paper, measuring it, and then coloring it with geometric shapes. |
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 Mrs. Vescovi enlisted the help of Mr. Pearson to open the "Math Cafe" in her classroom, where students used their math skills to make a "Magical Math Meal"--in this case, waffles, which they topped with fruit and enjoyed! |
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 It looks delicious! |
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 Kindergarten students used their knowledge of colors to count how many of each color they had in a bag of Skittles. |
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 Then they made a human graph chart, showing which color they had the most of in their bags. Looks like orange was the big winner! |
 The day ended in fine fashion with an assembly in the Multi-Purpose Room, featuring Margaret Hooten, who showed how math and music combine for even more fun! |
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What a magically great day! Who knew math could be this much fun or that it is so important for lots of things we do every day? |
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