Though the pandemic sets us apart, fifth graders have shown great passion for learning math. In order to enrich students’ online learning experience and develop their independent learning abilities, students have been provided with a variety of math activities which are creative, exploratory, and entertaining in addition to well-designed live-streaming lessons and pre-recorded interactive courses on LC every day. Let’s take a look at the fabulous activities our exceptional students have been doing!

The recurring outbreak of the pandemic has set students back at home for online learning. Because of this, they have had to change their approach to learning. To our delight, the students have continued their good habits of learning while studying online, becoming outstanding independent learners.

Students watch and interact with teaching videos on LC while taking down notes of essential learning points. It is a precious opportunity for students to understand key points, make connections of previous and new knowledge as well as to summarize what they have learned. On the Notes Competition, students have voted for the best notes and learned from those. Some of the good notes prioritize summarizing key points; some lay emphasis on connections between knowledge; and others illustrated and highlighted the ability of various colors in facilitating memory.

What’s more, Teachers-of-the-Day has continued their journey of teaching from geometry to number sense. In order to teach an organized and well-planned lesson, our teachers have made videos with detailed explanations, well-designed slides, and clear instructions. More importantly, the teaching is based on students’ previous learning experiences in which key learning points and difficulties have been explained in detail and examples, practice and class activities have all been used with the balance to facilitate learning. All of the teaching and planning have shown how much hard work our Teachers-of-the-Day have put into planning!

Being a dreamer? Why not a designer! Grab your equipment and use your knowledge to design for a variety of projects.

The first project for our designers is to design a dream bedroom using their knowledge of perimeter and area. Designers need to draw the blueprints and choose the furniture they want. Look at their fabulous design!

Gallon, pint, quart, cup… How can we remember so many units? Super Gallon Man comes to the rescue! Students have used their knowledge of converting among different units to make Super Gallon Man, showing how they understand the conversion among units and their abilities to visualize abstract concepts. This is no normal Gallon Man. This is Super Gallon Man with knowledge and art!

Furthermore, our student designers have used their knowledge of ratio to scale up candy wrappers! How colorful those wrappers are!

If you are a big fan of detective stories, you cannot miss the math detective stories every day! A three-week-series fraction detective story gets students to solve the problems and find out the truth.

“How to make seven an even number without any calculation?” “How many sides are there in a circle?” … All of these riddles start the day of online math learning for our students. Every morning, students are waiting for the daily published math riddles with eagerness and waiting to solve the problems. During E-Classes, students are striving to answer the riddles and explain them to their classmates.

Tired? Why not have a Board Game? Time Race Board Game is a perfect choice for the family to enjoy together on a Saturday night. What we can also do is use our knowledge of fractions to make spectacular Sparkle Chows in the ‘Fraction Kitchen’! The only rule in the Castle of Fun is to have fun!

The annual Pi Day has been held online with eager expectations. Students joined in activities such as watching Pi videos, singing Pi songs, and finishing Pi crossword games. They also indulged in making math posters using information about mathematicians as well as important facts about Pi and how useful it is in the natural world. Furthermore, students have been working on a measuring experiment figuring out the value of Pi by measuring the circumference and diameter of circular objects.

With the knowledge of solid figures, the ingenious student mathematicians have made various solid figures and worked out their attributes, including vertices, edges, and faces. Students have even specially designed surfaces for them! To know more about animals, students have used their new knowledge of unit rates to make predictions about the running speed of different animals. You will be surprised by how fast they run! To know more about themselves, students have used their new knowledge of percentages to make a “100% of me” and show who they are using mathematical language.

Let’s continue our journey of math with the start of this lovely summer, talking with numbers, communicating with shapes, and exploring the mysterious unknown!

Written by | Wang Yuanxin

Pictures by | G5 Math Group

Videos by | G5 Math Group

Edited by | Huang Shiyuan, Kristjan Butler