Students in Whitney Davis’ Math 7 class at Holley Middle School/High School needed a big surface to work on their Pythagorean Theorem word problems, so their teacher brought them outside and handed them sidewalk chalk.
They had to draw a picture, label the picture, then determine the missing side using the Pythagorean Theorem.
“Sometimes it is easier to answer a word problem when you have a big workspace,” said Davis. “Also, we were doing real life scenarios, so I thought that if the students were surrounded by objects in the word problems, they could picture them better.”
Shown here are Makenzie Ferranti (left) and Taylor Kimmerly.
