Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Fishy Math

I have been participating in some professional development activities this year involving math.  One of those is a math cohort group that meets about once a month since February in the evenings to improve our math teaching skills.  At our last meeting we were each given a piece of literature and asked to implement it in our classroom to meet the curriculum and expand upon the new skills we have gained.

Here is our book:


We decided to live our story (of course, real piranhas are out of the question, but we had fun imagining!)


We came up with some interesting math understandings:


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