• Digital Root and Dog Poop!

  September 25, 2009

  Having another amazing trip!  Left on the 15th and flew to Wichita, Kansas then drove for my third trip to Dodge City.  Wonderful teachers for two days and wonderful classrooms for the third day.  Had fifth and sixth grade teachers then went into classrooms to teach math with students.  Saw incredible teachers teaching their hearts out.  Thank you Jenny, Wendy and Heather for allowing me in to create chaos in your classrooms.  You three are amazing teachers and your students are awesome!

  Then ventured to a new part of Minnesota for the weekend of walking our daughter’s golf tournament.  It was held at a beautiful course called “The Jewel” in Lake City which is right on the Mississippi.  We loved watching 18 teams of collegiate golfers.

  Headed to Chicago for a workshop on Monday and then an after school workshop with the most enthusiastic group!

  Now we have been in Omaha working for three days.  Ok, my life is complete!  Got to watch Margaret’s fifth graders play a great p.e./math game using digital root.  She had her students in relay teams of about four students lined up.  She had the number 1-9 each written on a meat tray with a stake in the ground.  Margaret called out numbers like “376.”  Students had to find the digital root as mental math and run to that stake.  They loved it and ran their hearts out to get to the number first.  At the stake with the number “5″ there was a pile of dog poop!  They had to avoid it and touch the stake when the digital root was five.  Ah, the joy!

  Kuddos to Greg and Margaret for using the technology and the fun to make digital root come alive as the most important number property!  If you are in the dark with digital root, stay tuned!

  Also, something big is coming with my number line!  Hint, hint!

  Mathematically yours,

Comments are closed.