Week of October 5-9

This week, the 3rd graders wowed me with their own number tricks.  We learned that when something in our trick is changing, that becomes the variable.  One class also solved variable puzzles and learned that variables can also represent a specific unknown. Can you solve this multiplication variable puzzle?

In 4th grade, we tackled the "Move Straight Challenge" where we programmed the robot to move from a start line to a finish line and back to the start using degrees, rotations, and seconds.  We realized that using math skills can help us be precise.  Check out some video footage below!

In 5th grade, we continued to learn about contracts and how important it is to keep track of them when writing code. We learned how to flip, rotate, and size images, and some classes started to learn how to define variables in the definitions window.  All of this knowledge will be the foundation of our video game designs!