Fifth graders at Willow Road School competed in their first Amazing Math Olympics Race. Students collaborated with fellow classmates across the grade on a variety of math challenges as they represented countries from around the world in an array of Olympic events. Each event was designed to test their abilities to read closely and apply logical reasoning and critical thinking skills related to each special task the students needed to complete. A variety of concepts were tackled as they faced challenges such as finding the average score for figure skater “Twyla Twirl”, conquering the giant slalom course where a multitude of word problems involving concepts such as working with fractions, order of operations, and general number sense were solved, and cross-country skiing where teams focused their energy on decimal place value and ordering decimals.
The Mathletes also had fun with events such as “Carrying the Torch” where students showed their knowledge of elapsed time and measurement conversions. Finally, teams worked with geometric shapes to design their own Olympic Village. After finalizing their designs, teams determined the total volume of their structures using metric units of measure. In the end, the events of the day proved everyone is a winner at Willow Road!
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