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May 24, 2019

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 […]

Posted in; Academics, Math / friend ship, math

September 12, 2014

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 […]

Posted in; Assembly / art, assembly, math, rain

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