February 3 – Maths

Now everyone in town will recognize my van.

Now everyone in town will recognize my van.

That’s right, just pretzels.

Had to move the light up 2 notches today, the basil grew so fast.
These were started on December 29th. Check out the growth at 8 days.

Eight jumps and nearly ten hours later, the Martin Luther King Invitational Track Meet finally ended.
Cole placed 17th in the long jump and 9th in the Triple Jump. Not too shabby for a 14 yr-old competing against 18yr-olds.

A little one, but a jet nonetheless.
I love these 2-gate airports.

In kindergarten. These boys had measured the length of the rug in unit cubes and immediately one started breaking the long stick into groups of ten.

Place value disks made with poker chips.

I had to kick my students out of Math Club again this week. This fourth-grader is finding equivalent fractions with the new Guide the Gecko game.

Cole is on an indoor track club. Today’s meet was held at the Balch Fieldhouse at CU-Boulder, which is attached to their football stadium.
They were running a 60 meter race while I was watching the long jump. We had to put up barriers on either side of the runway as people will not look and walk into a jumper on their approach. Some of these athletes are 17 years old. It can be ugly. Volunteers also put up a barrier to stop the shot put from rolling into the jumping pit.