While every child is exceptional in their own way, when it comes to Math, there is such a thing as an “average” student. In this case, the Seniors (5th- and 6th-graders) used many math skills to create Erlsha Rohean, this year’s Average Senior. The students measured each other – head, neck, and torso circumferences, arm […]
Math Philosophy and Practice
It’s July. Why are the teachers pictured here, and two more joining via the computer, gathered? Because they chose to spend a week pulling together the strands of the NBS math curriculum into a powerful statement of philosophy and a detailed overview of how that philosophy is put into practice, whether the students are […]
Building Bridges
The 5th and 6th graders put their engineering, construction, and problem-solving skills to work building bridges. First, they chose a type of bridge – truss, suspension, beam, cantilever, arch, cable-stayed – and researched the pros and cons of the design and actual bridges constructed in that style. Then, with simple materials the students built their […]
A To-Scale Model of The Friend Ship
What is hands-on learning? Here’s a great example. Maggie’s Pre-Algebra class worked on this to-scale replica of the Friend Ship on and off all year. It was finished during the Spring Elective class and their commitment to detail, from the bell to the slide, is impressive! The amount of measuring, computation, observation, and problem-solving this […]
Assembly time, September 12
Margaret’s math group has been working hard to figure out old they are. Of course, these 10- and 11- year-olds know their age in years, but Margaret challenged them to use more detail. They each made books showing their age, at that moment, in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds! The students sit […]
