Green Globs Competition Between McAuliffe and Battin Middle Schools
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 Contest Booklet
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Eighth grade Students from McAuliffe and Battin Middle Schools recently conbined computer game fun and serious mathematics in a face-off of the  "Green
Globs Challenge." After learning about coordinate graphs and equations
in math class, they put their knowledge to work by playing the "Green
Globs" computer game using classroom computers and laptops. Here's how
the game was played: If student's correctly entered an equation, they
hit a green glob target. After becoming more proficient at the game,
the eighth graders advanced to the advanced level - challenged by
"blockers" that forced them to find alternative equations to hit the
targets. McAuliffe's eighth graders won the competition. The winners
were: Ricardo Lopez, Andres Rengifo, Madelyn Centurion, Kerland
Stavien, Junior Chala, Paula Cacares, Jamie Garcia and Valentina
Acosta. Eighth grade math teachers Mr. Harner of McAuliffe and Mr.
Schwarzberg of Battin, both participants in the MATRIX
grant that seeks to raise the level of technology used in the math
classroom, worked with Ihor Charischak from the Stevens Institute to
plan the "Green Globs Challenge."For more about Green Globs see http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/story/ihor/greenglobs.html |