Hello, it's me again (Zach). Today I will be talking about Chapter 1 (took a long time to get this far)! In the first chapter, we did rates and ratios.
One activity that we did was make a balloon rocket-type thingy. We got into groups of three then we made the balloon things. One person went on the other end of the room to hold one end of the string, while the other two people held the other end of the string and balloon. We started a stopwatch and the race was on! Ours spun around and around until it stopped in the middle part. Then we recorded our rates.
Another rates activity was doing fitness things (Push-ups, Sit-ups, Jumping jacks, Ima-Stars!) and recording how fast we did it in a certain amount of time and if we kept up this exact rate, how many we would do if a certain amount of time. For example, I could be able to do 1000 push-ups in two hours.
We also looked into different jobs, what they do, and how much they get paid per year, month, day, hour, and minute (fun fact: a doctor gets about $100 a day, I think).
Then, once we had done all of the stuff for ratios and rates and learned everything there is to know, we went on a field trip to Lee's Marketplace! There, we looked at the best buy for a lot of different items like bread and paper towels. We also got to choose one more that we could do (in our partnership). My partner and I chose different types of Snickers (five different kinds). Thanks for reading my post!
What was your favorite activity from this chapter? Comment below!
One activity that we did was make a balloon rocket-type thingy. We got into groups of three then we made the balloon things. One person went on the other end of the room to hold one end of the string, while the other two people held the other end of the string and balloon. We started a stopwatch and the race was on! Ours spun around and around until it stopped in the middle part. Then we recorded our rates.
Another rates activity was doing fitness things (Push-ups, Sit-ups, Jumping jacks, Ima-Stars!) and recording how fast we did it in a certain amount of time and if we kept up this exact rate, how many we would do if a certain amount of time. For example, I could be able to do 1000 push-ups in two hours.
We also looked into different jobs, what they do, and how much they get paid per year, month, day, hour, and minute (fun fact: a doctor gets about $100 a day, I think).
Then, once we had done all of the stuff for ratios and rates and learned everything there is to know, we went on a field trip to Lee's Marketplace! There, we looked at the best buy for a lot of different items like bread and paper towels. We also got to choose one more that we could do (in our partnership). My partner and I chose different types of Snickers (five different kinds). Thanks for reading my post!
What was your favorite activity from this chapter? Comment below!