When will I ever have to solve a proportion in life? That’s a great question! Students in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s 8th grade math class selected a fun hat – Thinking Cap – to wear during class. While wearing that hat they wrote short stories about how that particular hat-wearing-person would use a proportion in life.
Joel stated, “Bonnie the bunny is looking for three carrots to eat for the next five days. If she looks for 15 days, how many carrots does she need?”
Bri may find a future in the royal family. “The princess had 100 pieces of jewelry and the prince had 50. They both went to the store and the princess came back with 500 pieces of jewelry. How many did her prince bring home?”
Other students were talking about bananas, fish, books, horses and even tigers jumping through flaming hoops! They didn’t even pause to ask why they were writing complete sentences in math!
The smiles continued as Trent asked, “If I told 12 jokes and my sister told 7 jokes, then next day I told 24 jokes, how many did my sister tell?”
Life application of math lessons add value to long term memories.
Hat donations are accepted. 🙂
