Skipping EdCampOKC might have actually been a really good decision this week. I had the opportunity to work with our Saturday tutoring group. Being a group of mostly 6th grade boys, I drew a little inspiration from the OKC Thunder.
We have a couple of basketball hoops out on our playground, but no actual court. Armed with sidewalk chalk, tape measures and a basketball we set out to find our free throw percents.
First the kids had to find out how far a regulation free throw line was from the basket (18' 10" for those curious). and measure it out with their tape measures. The catch - the measures only had inches. After doing some conversions the had crafted their free throw line and the accompanying circle
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| I little hard to see with the chalk but here is our free throw line! |
Everyone took 10 shots and had to find the fraction and percent of free throws. Thankfully the chalk and the concrete provided great work space.
The kids worked on four different topics (measurement conversion, circumference, writing percents, and ordering percents/decimals), got authentic results, and had a great time!
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