On
your marks, get set, GO!!!!!!
It’s a race to the finish line on race day! Fifth grade students can use comparing and ordering decimals along with a race
situation to help them be Olympic Champions. We started the lesson by watching
some Olympic champions and their winning races. Visually, it helped the students
to understand that in racing you want the smaller number because that means
that you were the fastest and the winner of the race. We also discussed if you
did not win the race what kind of times did that mean for the other participants
in comparison to the winner. It helped the students to relate because it was a real
world experience and something they participated in as well.
We are off to the races. I set up cones equal distances apart for all
5 groups outside on the playground. Each
group had a stop watch, recording sheet, and the speed of an Olympian. Each
student was timed for how long it took them to complete the task of down and
back. One student was the timer, one was the recorder, and everyone was a
runner!!
At the end of the racing rounds, we took the race times and
ordered them in the first trial fastest to slowest and slowest to fastest with
the second trial. Then we took the same numbers and ordered them as if they
were regular decimals and discussed the differences of the orders and how you view the numbers. Based on the results, Cimarron has some future Olympians in training!
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