Natina DiOrio

The NCAA college basketball championship games are in March! You will be amazed at how much math, geography, and reading are involved in this one sport! These activities can be done in school or by researching at home. Learn new basketball vocabulary, study college locations on a map and information about each university, unscramble words, create pictographs, and have fun following your favorite team. Green March Madness Basketball Clipart Miss Darth Grader Clipart Eraser Dust Font- David

Students will work with partners on completing “basketball” activities around the classroom. Students will engage in conversation and discuss strategies used in arriving at reasonable answers. They will develop an understanding of fractions as numbers and will find equivalent fractions and compare fractions A goal is for students to understand that not only is there a rule when comparing fractions but that they can check if their answer is reasonable, by creating a model (number line, bar d