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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Had a perfect range of activities to encourage mathematical thinking with the students. It was especially helpful with consolidating measuremnet concepts with my lower ability students that often find trying to visulalise mathematics use in everyday life. Students were highly engaged.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future opportunities came about with our PE unit for athletics and cross country.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, effective, authentic

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Own creation of boat / raft that would float the longest. The students that took part had to consider use of materials to build the boat / raft, what materials float best? What impact does the weather have in particular wind? There were so many different factors that they did not consider when starting this project.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Technology, P.E. Science

“This kit was perfect for integrating with our mathematics unit on Measurement while aso looking at the Games. This provided a lot of discussion around world records, how they are challenged and presenting their statistical data. Had some interesting ideas for world record attempts.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? They would debate distances and measurements within their groups. It reinforced using different measuring devices and there were lots of discussions around comparing cm, m, mm as different groups would record in diffeerent ways. The graphing was fun and we they were really engaged in creating them on google sheets. Using decimals, percentages, and sometimes fractions required some discussion and teaching.There was so much going on I could have started last term and continued into this term.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Being able to research world records and finding out about the people involved was something kids wanted to do. Using sports and physical activities through maths would be a great way to engage more children. Even those that did not like running, would give these a go just to see how fast or slow a time was.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? engaging, purposeful, exciting

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Two of my children challenged each other to say the most hello's in different languages in 1 minute. They spent time learning some and testing and finding shorter ones to say more. We have a very multi-cultural classroom with some chn who don't speak alot a English. They would smile to hear their language being said and helped to pronounce the words more accurately.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, social sciences, maths, using computers, languages, P.E, health, social skills.

“What an great resource! The class were so engaged and loved the activities. They enjoyed finding out about lots of different world records and trtying to see how well they could do. Most of my kids are sporty and had watched the games earlier in the year. They would time themselves trying to score the most goals from the furtherest distance on our basketball court. The excitement as they improved was fantastic. The resource helped with measurement skills and statistics. It was easy to use and we could adapt it for different levels of learning.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Statistics and measurement were well integrated throughout the unit

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Class had a great culture arise from working along side each other in the tasks

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, relationship building

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Bottle flipping blindfolded

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? As above

“The students were really engaged in the process and this unoit worked well alongside the Olympic Games. We incorporated statistics which integrated well across the curriculum.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Good use of measurement skills.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Hmm, not sure yet.

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, competitive, creative.

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Speed tree climbing was a hit.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Language and parts of speech.

“Students really enjoyed pouring over Guiness World Records books and then applying what they saw to their own world and ideas.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students had to work to compare timing and durations along with calculating averages, etc.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students expressed curiosity about the science and techniques behind breaking real-world records, sparking ideas for research on topics.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? active, engaging, perseverance

What was the most unique record achieved and why? Most Consecutive Tongue Twisters Said Without Mistakes

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Literacy, physical education, mathematics

“This is an absolute gem! It’s a fantastic way to engage students with fun, hands-on activities that inspire creativity and teamwork. The materials are well-organized, easy to use, and adaptable for different needs. Our class had a blast attempting the challenges, and it sparked some great discussions about goal-setting and perseverance.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The students really had to problem solve and then revisit their predictions of what they had set for their world record and then go again

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? It has sparked interest for creating new games, challenges for fitness and PE

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, fun, entertaining

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The most pingpong balls rolled down a channel into jelly

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? PE and Fitness, Inquiry

“We used this tied into maths and on the back of the Olympics”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? This helped students learn about the concepts of statistics and measurements in a fun and interactive way.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Possibly something we will do each year with students because it is a fun and engaging way for students to learn.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Engaging, Fun, Mathematical

What was the most unique record achieved and why? The longest time walking with a book balanced on top of head - required students to discuss was does "walking" look like. Decided it needed to look like a "normal" walk and students could not try to walk slowly on purpose so the book wouldn't fall.

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Students wrote about their record as a narrative. Linked in nicely with the Olympics. Maths was included through measurement and statistics. P.E, in particular with students who had physical based records.

“Very engaging for students and fit perfectly with learning about the Olympics. We did this as an end of Term activity and it was a lot of fun.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Using both measurement and coming up with something tangible to measure.

How successful was this kit in encouraging physical activity in your class?

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What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? coming back later to try and beat their own world records.

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? fun, physical, intriguing

What was the most unique record achieved and why? sorry, can't remember (last term was a life time ago!)

How many new DIY World Records did your class create?

5 or less

25+

How likely are you to teach this kit again in the future?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Maths/Phys Ed/Writing

“We used this during the Olympics this year, the class had really enjoyed watching all of our NZ team medals and were very motivated to go for their own medals!”

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Posted 1 year ago