It's a Wrap!

planning stage...

diving right in!

collaboration

...even a laugh or two...

wrappin' it up

Today we "wrapped up" our work with surface area of rectangular prisms in math.  The students worked in pairs to calculate the surface area of their math text book, then they had to wrap it (Christmas present style) using the minimum amount of paper, calculate the area of the piece of paper they needed, and finally they had to compare the two amounts.  Tomorrow we will compare their efforts to the piece of paper that I used to do the same activity.  Real life math at its finest!

testing a theory

they've got it covered

they're bookin' it

what teamwork

sticky notes are handy planning tools

do they measure up?

accountable talk!