Resurrection Catholic School recently formed a no-cost math club for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Instructional support teacher Jenny Shmidheiser said the club, called Crazy 8s, is over capacity with 41 students.
Two separate age groups, for children in grades three to five and for children in kindergarten through grade two, use the same basic activities, but with more challenging math for the older level. The club offers diverse materials to handle a wide range of abilities even among children in the same grade.
A recent geometry lesson began with placing glow sticks on the gym floor to make straight-sided shapes, including triangles, rectangles, squares, and hexagons. After some crawling, laughing, and glow stick placing, older students together created one large pattern of repeating squares that glowed in the dark. Then they changed the pattern to create repeating triangles. On the gym stage, younger students did much the same but with less use of math terminology and concepts. Students were able to take home the glow sticks, along with the dice used in a Bouncy Dice Explosion lesson on probability.
Upcoming lessons were slated to include Let's Get Loud and Toilet Paper Olympics. For the lessons, students were slated to run, jump, throw objects, and roll around on the floor as they absorbed the principles of math.
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