A Big Bite

Pi day, was a HUGE success!Today is the 114th day of school which is pretty cool because today is 3.14.  To begin the day, we each decorated our race bib and everyone had the same number, 3.14.  We started the day by learning about  the meaning of Pi with a Brainpop video. We recorded data about our favorite "Pi," dessert  and our favorite "Pi," food.  Then we recorded data about the circular snacks that we had for today.  We put all of this information together in 3 separate line plots and we combined our data with data from Mrs. Merten's class.  Dr. Looney,  math consultant for the Franklin Public Schools,  stopped by to see how we were doing.  She was SO impressed with all of the math skills that we were using to celebrate Pi.  Some of the many skills we used were; measurement, graphing (line plots), analyzing data, calculating elapsed time, and addition and subtraction of decimals.  When it was time to run the 5k (3.14 miles), each student had to complete a math problem before they could receive the baton to run their leg of the relay race.  We used a ruler for the baton.   We learned that the answer to every problem was 3.14.  It was funny.Our class finished the race in 28:09 which is a great time for a first race. Mrs. Williams was able to record all of us running, check it out!  Lea summed it up best when she said, "Today was the best math lesson ever."  I think so too, Lea! :)

Congratulations to all of the runners!

Favorite Food Pie, Pizza!  Quiche did  get one vote. :)

The favorite dessert pie was Whoopie Pie, and Pumpkin and Ice Cream  Pie tying for 2nd.

And the last two runners!