Ms. Janie's Math Class!

Meet Sweaty Betty!

We are Star-Mathing kids and doing lots of ‘differentiated’ education. We incorporate architecture as art, and do half sized self portraits, (because math is an art) and we do rescues involving math procedures. It may sound crazy, but you'd never believe how much math is really needed to rescue someone! We make candy using recipe adaptations involving fractions. (The kids really enjoy it.) Anything else is just math and worksheets and there's nothing exciting about that!!!

Spring Creek's very own resident skeleton!

Star Math?   Star Math is a program, that we have at Spring Creek, that helps us teachers to figure out where the students are in their educational highway to success. It helps us be able to give the students the work they really need and not something too easy or too hard. The students are also able to work at their own pace therefore they tend to get a lot accomplished.

What's with the architecture? In a way, math can be a hidden or forgotten art form. One really fun way to get comfortable with how to use the math tools  (i.e. rulers and compasses.) was to create a dream house and draw it. The students needed to use all the mathematical tools to make anything in their picture.

Self Portraits? Only half sized though. we measure how tall the kids are and everything else, then we divide that by half and draw it! They are really cool.

Rescues with math... You're kidding... Right?   No, we're not kidding. Believe it or not, rescuing people does take a lot of math. What happens if you need a latter to save someone from a burning building and the building is 45 feet tall, but you only have a latter that's 32 feet long. how many more feet would you need? See! I could've just saved someone's life.

Making Candy in Jail?   The kids seem to love trying to figure  out how much powered sugar is need to make the wedding mints. It be messy at times, but it's totally worth it because not only do they get the treat that they deserve, but they're learning also!