Middleschool Mishaps! - Math Class :)
Mondays had Math periods just before the lunch hour. Middleschoolers loved their Math classes, but, my God! they were ravenous by the end of it and would be begging to be let sooner to rush to the dining hall. We were tackling Fractions that Monday. I would keep the kids engaged by taking examples of pizza or cakes to demonstrate the "cutting into fractions". We had drawn a fully loaded pizza with mushrooms, yellow capsicum (we had some really specific likes and dislikes :), sweet corn, jalapenos and all the works on the blackboard. We had cut it into halves, then proceeded to cut one of the half into eighths and distributed the bits to some kids. We were figuring out which was a fair deal. The child who got the 3/8th of the pizza or the 1/2 of the pizza? The children were totally engaged, clearly engrossed in finding who got the best deal of all. We then moved on to drawing another circle on the board to be cut out for the next set of students. Starting to cut the circle o...
