Students estimate the size of their school to learn math skills

Students estimate the size of their school to learn math skills | Research highlights role of deeper learning in schools | Personalized, blended learning is embraced at Ga. middle school Created for sittishon.whungsinsujarit.comtit@blogger.com |  Web Version     September 29, 2014 CONNECT WITH SMARTBRIEF        SIGN UP | FORWARD | ARCHIVE | ADVERTISE Teaching & Learning Sponsored By Students estimate the size of their school to learn math skills Elementary-school students in Maine learned estimation and measuring skills by figuring out how many of them it would take to circle the building holding hands. The students worked out the problem in class before discovering it took all 368 students to wrap around the building once. 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