Snow Day!

Today we had some fun with the small group of students that were at school on the snow day.

We did an impromptu trigonometry lesson to introduce how to use clinometers.

We calculated how high our atrium wall is. We got pretty accurate numbers despite the many opportunities for human error.

next we did some testing with a few elastics, and then used proportional reasoning to estimate the number of elastics we’d need for a safe but thrilling bungee jump.

Finally we bungeed several figures off the edge. We had 1 crash on the floor, 1 was thrilling, and 1 was a really boring bungee.

students had fun, teachers had fun, we did some math and learned some new skills, and went home with a story to tell from a very exciting snow day.