Cars, Tracks and Math in First

           Cars, Tracks and Math!

First grade has enjoyed spending time building during free choice.  Students have been using blocks to build race car tracks with ramps and bridges. They have shown great teamwork building, testing and modifying their tracks until cars successfully travel to the end without falling off. 

   

Students are so proud of their tracks and have begun using skills from our "Rolling Along With Links" math lessons which focused on measurement and graphing.  We have gathered a great deal of data from racing our cars! 

After collecting data from our various trials, students organized the information into bar graphs to make comparisons and draw conclusions about their experiments.