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MEASURING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN PRESENT AND PAST

October 25, 2019

Our 5th-grade students spent a math class putting their skills to the test in our American Freedom Museum.   With measuring tapes in hand and the charge to explore the museum in teams, 5th-grade students set about to “Crunch the Numbers”. This mission was a series of exercises spread throughout the museum set to test […]

Measurement Matters in Kindergarten

February 07, 2014

These pictures show students cutting out outlines of their bodies for a math lesson about measurement. After cutting out body outlines, students were able to compare lengths of fellow classmates using comparative language: short, shorter, shortest and long, longer, longest. After spending several days comparing life-size cut-outs, students measured the length of their paper bodies using nonstandard units, such […]

Congratulations to Math Wiz Kids!

December 05, 2013

Brook Hill Lower School students Karissa, Kayla and Nate Dahn earned first place in their respective grade levels at the Mathnasium of Tyler “TriMathLon” completion.  These Math Wiz Kids earned $100.00 for The Book Hill Lower School! The amount earned was based on the number of correct answers. We are so proud of Karissa, Kayla, and Nate.

What Time Is It?

November 21, 2013

Ask a kindergarten student and they may just know the answer! They are learning how to tell time using their entire body!

Holiday Budget

November 08, 2013

Christmas bells were ringing in Mrs. Mize’s classroom on Wednesday and the tune was ruffled papers and the smell was ink and sale papers! Mrs. Mize’s classroom gave meaning to the chapter they just finished in 6th grade (Decimal Operations) by creating a budget for Christmas spending. Each student came up with their own dollar […]

History + Math = Fun!

October 22, 2013

Mr. Wayne Mahaffey’s Algebra 1 classes visited the American Freedom Museum today. Their objective? To discover the many options to create a real-life math problem in part to think mathmatically and in part to have a better understanding of our history! Students were assigned the task of creating three mathmatical problems from three different parts […]

1st Grade Classroom Library

September 18, 2013

Mrs. Dahn’s first grade class celebrated their love of learning to read by opening up a classroom library.  The students each brought a favorite stuffed animal to school to read with. “We also had some math fun with our animals as we measured their length (really fun since Landon brought a snake), circumference, and weight.  […]

Museum Mathematics

September 09, 2013

Which of the following does not belong: Peanut Butter and Jelly; Fall and Football; Milk and Cookies; Freedom Museum and Math? The last…or so you might think. On Friday Mrs. Mize’s math classes took a trip out of the traditional math classroom and into history to learn how math does not just apply to their […]