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MacDuffie Sixth Graders Hit the Trail – the Math Trail
On Wednesday, April 29, MacDuffie’s sixth graders walked a Math Trail at the Springfield Quadrangle. Armed with their packet of directions, notebooks, and pencils, they visited sites on the green and in two of the museums. They searched, read, took notes, and sketched. In the Museum of Fine Arts, they looked at a floor design and answered questions dealing with area and symmetry. They found a sculpture by Daniel Chester French that was cast in this area and will be researching his other famous works. They also viewed a mural about Springfield and the Arts created by Sante Graziani and will be writing about their impressions of this work.
One of the many areas visited in the Science Museum had the students stepping on a planetary scale and comparing their weight on earth to what it would be on the other planets. They read a newspaper article and an ad about air travel in 1930 and will assess how speeds and time of the same routes today have changed. They learned about classification of volcanoes and the difference between a meteoroid and a meteorite. On the green, students found the bench with the Springfield seal and will be answering the question of when does a town become a city, and will also be expressing population change in different ways mathematically.