The Gibbas Book of Class Records

Before our Thanksgiving break, Team Gibbas was learning about bar graphs, tally charts, line graphs, and picture graphs in math.  We were working on Chapter 4:  Tables and Line Graphs in Math in Focus.   To give students some fun, hands-on & authentic opportunities to create tally charts, tables, bar graphs and line graphs we had some classroom challenges.  Using Minute-to-win-it type activities students competed in four challenges then used the data they collected from the challenges to create line graphs and bar graphs.

Challenge 1:  Wall Squats

Students (and teachers) were challenged to see how long they could maintain a wall squat.  We started with 17 students and 2 teachers and as time progressed through 2 minutes more and more students dropped out.

Students then created line graphs to display the data.

Challenge 2:  Balancing Dice