Week of November 27-December 1

This week, the 3rd graders finally decided which movie studio to work for. After looking at a lot of data about movie ratings and profits, they all decided to work for Pixar. They used their data to explain that Pixar had better overall ratings and a higher net profit than Dreamworks in recent years. Their final project is to choose a career that they are interested in and show how math is used in that career by creating word problems for their classmates to share. This will be due next week (the first week of engineering).

In 4th grade, we finalized our carnival games, making sure they are slightly unfair so we can make a profit. Next week, we will invite students to come and play our games! We will also start our engineering unit on Lego robotics!

The 5th graders learned about piecewise functions that will allow different results based on what key is pressed. This will enable our player to move up when the up arrow is hit and down when the down arrow is hit. The remaining code to get our games working is shared on our 5th grade page. Click on the links below to play some of the games the students have created! More games will be added to our 5th grade page.

Zachary's game
Gabriella's game