Tangy Tuesday or Thursday (It Depends on the Day)

Greg Tang is one of our favorites. 
We love his books. 
We love his ideas. 
We love his games. 


Last year we started Tangy Tuesdays. On a Tangy Tuesday, students could opt to spend lunch/recess in the Math Quarters participating in all things "tangy." Those were a huge success. So much so that we could not keep up with the demand. 

So this year, we are trying out Tangy Tuesday (of Thursday) during our math block time. 
On Thursday, we introduced some of our first graders to Tangy Thursday. 
We had four stations:
Tic-Tac-Tang (AKA Tic-Tac-Ten Frame)
Number Nicknames
Ten Frame Mania (iPad)
Make Ten

Here are a few photos our first graders in action. 
Note: Want to try some of these?  Visit www.gregtangmath.com

Number Nicknames

Number Nickname Recording Sheet

Checking work

Working on the nickname

Ten Frame Mania

Hurry up! Fill in that ten frame!

Racing the numbers

And racing the numbers

 Tic-Tac-Tang (Tic-Tac-Ten Frame)

Recording  roll on the ten frame

I hope I roll a "1" or "2"

Checking the board. No winner yet!

Make Ten

Make Ten Recording Sheet

 Using her Make Ten bracelet to check her work

Checking partners of 10 on the

Number Balance Scale

Fibonacci Day: A Day of Patterns and Numerical Relationships

The Math Quarters at The Peck Place School is excited to mark Fibonacci Day!
Preparations are already underway as we design and create Fibonacci related activities for our first through sixth grade students.

But I am sure you are thinking, Fibonacci what?

Leonardo Pisano (Leonardo de Pisa, Leonardo Bonacci) was born in Italy (around 1170) and educated in North Africa. As a child, he was encouraged to study accounting. He recognized the enormous advantages of the mathematical systems used there and introduced  Arabic Numerals (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to the Western world.

Leonardo is known for his published work, Liber abaci. One section of his book led to the introduction of the Fibonacci numbers and the Fibonacci sequence for which he is best remembered today.

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

Can you figure out the sequence? 









Want to learn more about Fibonacci and patterns?

Join us for Fibonacci Day:

A Day of Patterns and Numerical Relationships!

Monday, November 23, 2015  (11/23--get it?)

The Peck Place School Gym
8:40-9:40         Grades 3 and 6
10:00-11:00     Grade 5
11:30-12:30     Grade 1
1:00 -2:00        Grade 2
1:45-2:45         Grade 4

We are in need of parent volunteers for this day. If you are interested, please contact Susan Lukianov (slukianov@orange-ed.org).

We are also in need of pine cones for this day. If you have some you can spare, please send them in with your child. 

Hope to see you there!


For more information:
https://plus.maths.org/content/life-and-numbers-fibonacci

Summer's End Leads to STEM

Summer flew by for many.
As much as I love my summer days, I was very excited to begin another year at Peck Place. 
That's because The Peck Place Math Quarters kept quite busy over the summer designing and planning a multitude of events, lessons and activities for this school year. 

Peck Place School hosted the first (hopefully annual) Family STEM Night. 
What is STEM? 

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

It is important for our students to engage in STEM activities and lessons.

We were privileged to have the CT STEM Academy provide a multitude of hands-on activities for our students. 
With over 100 students attending STEM Night they were able to:




build rockets and launch them

conduct buoyancy trials

control a Sphero robot with a Smartphone/iPad device

design and construct a bridge

build and explore catapults

program "robots" with Sharpie

design structures

make super paper airplanes

building towers

and so much more...

Many thanks to all who came to Family STEM Night! Hope to see you again next year.