On April 2nd and 3rd, Shelton Elementary third graders participated in the 2nd annual American Hero Math Days. Students rotated classrooms and participated in activities that incorporated the famous Americans they’ve studied throughout the year with a variety of math concepts.
Students in Misty Skellenger’s class studied common salaries
for African Americans in the early 1900s and discussed how Mary Bethune helped
African Americans raise money to pay the poll tax, along with teaching them to
read.
Students in Cheryl Dean’s class used a timeline to organize
and display important events from Lyndon B. Johnson’s life.
For the Frederick Douglass station, students in Lauren
Green’s classroom used estimation to find the distances slaves had to travel on
the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom.
American Hero Math Days not only integrated famous American and math. Students also used reading strategies, obtained information from charts, maps, and graphs, and viewed a variety of primary documents. Teachers also incorporated the use of technology by using Smartboards, Pebble Go, and video and sound clips.
After two successful years of American Hero Math Days, Shelton third grade teachers plan on making this a tradition. The students seemed to enjoy it as well. As third grader Neha Bhandari commented, “I loved how we could refresh our memories in a fun way!”
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