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Welcome, Math Lovers. Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League. Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League. Karen Newell Intermediate District 287 Gifted Outreach Services: STEM Academic Services. Fermi Scoring = 40 points per week . 10 points = The BIG Answer
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Welcome, Math Lovers Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League
Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League Karen Newell Intermediate District 287 Gifted Outreach Services: STEM Academic Services
Fermi Scoring = 40 points per week 10 points = The BIG Answer 10 points = The List of Questions 10 points = Metacognition/Solution Process 10 points = The Model (one attachment or web link)
A Fermi question is posed with limited information given • How many water balloons would it take fill the school gymnasium? • What is the mass [in potatoes] of your class? • How much fabric is needed for a groundhog’s bathrobe?
Fermi Problems set kids to thinking about math in their worlds…..
Fermi question requires that students ask many more questions How big is a groundhog? How do I find out how much they weigh? What kind of bathrobes do they wear? Do I need to sew the bathrobe? From what fabric do I make a groundhog bathrobe? Is it a boy or girl groundhog? Does it matter? Is this too silly?
Fermi Models: Show What You Know A weekly model is required to show what you have learned or made regarding the problem. Sometimes it’s a picture sent as a jpeg file.
Sometimes it’s a drawing that has been scanned and sent as a jpeg file.
Sometimes it’s a picture of a poster that has been taken with a digital camera…. and sent as a jpeg file.
Smart Cookie's Fermi Math Website My Pages Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Grades 5-7: It could be a website……
Good models help show the mathematical thinking that helped to solve the problem. They show something about measuring, scaling, proportion or numbers- and are always rounded off. Fermi is very big on ZEROES.
Fermi Problems Require Metacognition* • It tells what you did first, and next and last. • It tells where you got your answers. • It tells what your assumptions are. • It tells what was hard, easy, fun, new…. • …a stretch, what you liked, who did what, • what didn’t work, and what did…. • …and all the weirdness along the way… * thinking about your thinking
6-week Winter Session begins January 28, 2014.Let’s Rock…and Roll!