WEEK ONE, 9/16

Hopefully, by now, your student has shared some of their fun from today's class with you! All of the classes reviewed what it means to be a PENTATHLETE and a member of the Fern Bluff Math Pentathlon Bobcats. We also talked about the purple FLAG CARD that students pass from player to player to indicate which person has the current move.

DIV I: Students learned a lot about standard configurations (how numbers appear in a way that is easily recognized such as found on dice, cards, or dominoes). We also practiced how to set up the CALLA game board using standard configurations. Send homes included a reference sheet for standard configurations and a few practice sheets.

DIV II: Learned three games which progressively became more challenging where the object was to get your chips lined up three in a row. The game "Five Chip" was sent home for practice play. Ask your student how to play! No need to get blue or red chips: use pennies and dimes as markers.

DIV III: After a brief review of standard configuration, students rolled dice to play "Cover Up" where the object is to cover a bingo type board of numbers by adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing the numbers showing on the dice.

NOTE: Send home worksheets are always optional. This is a club that teaches math, but is supposed to be FUN! If you have time and desire to do these, fantastic, that's why we are sending them home.