Student Work: The Final Week

          This week, I started an experiment in math with my third grade students. My students were confused about how an experiment in mathematics would work. However, after the first few days of working on this experiment, I noticed how supporting mathematical content with engaging experiments  allows students to not only be exposed to different mathematical tasks (calculating the area, importance of many trails, finding the median, graphing, etc.), but it also allows students to better understand that mathematics does not just mean computing and calculating; rather mathematics encompasses investigating, analyzing, and understanding. After this experiment, I would ask my students: What did we learn from this experiment? What are the different mathematical processes did we use in this experiment? Is it important to perform labs in mathematics?