On Thursday, March 17th, our class ventured down to the JH hallway and Mr. Childress' (the awesome JH Math teacher and my brother) room to participate in Measurement Olympics. The students competed in 5 events: Cotton Ball Shotput, Straw Javelin, Standing Broad Jump, Right-handed Marble Grab, and Left-handed Sponge Squeeze. Before actually doing the event, students had to ESTIMATE the measurement they thought they would get. The score they ended up with was the difference between their ESTIMATED measurement and their ACTUAL measurement (in other words, students closest to zero had the best scores!) It was a lot of fun and great way to culminate our chapter on Measurement. A big thank you to Mr. Childress and the JH math students who helped us out with this event!
Winners of the 2011 Measurement Olympics!
Cotton Ball Shotput - Erica Kellenberger w/ a score of 4 cm
Straw Javelin - Conner Peterson w/ a score of 2 cm
Standing Broad Jump - Rylie Lenz & Megan Blauwet (Tie) w/ a score of 2 in.
Right-handed Marble Grab - Megan Blauwet w/ a score of 14 grams
Left-handed Sponge Squeeze - Trevor Van Middendorp & Gabi Feucht (Tie) w/ a score of 0 mL
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