How educators can use watermelons to teach math

How educators can use watermelons to teach math | Tips for designing learning spaces | Tech tools for teachers to enhance flipped, blended classrooms Created for sittishon.whungsinsujarit.comtit@blogger.com |  Web Version     September 25, 2014 CONNECT WITH SMARTBRIEF        SIGN UP | FORWARD | ARCHIVE | ADVERTISE Teaching & Learning Sponsored By How educators can use watermelons to teach math An educator at a Wisconsin elementary school recently used watermelons to teach math concepts such as estimation. The students in two fifth-grade classes estimated the size, weight and number of seeds in the melons. The students also created graphs of their results before eating the watermelons. WiscNews.com (9/24) Share:  Tips for designing learning spaces (Ziviani) Research shows that reshaping physical learning environments to emphasize collaboration and mobility can help boost student performance. 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