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Welcome, Math Lovers

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

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  1. Welcome, Math Lovers Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League

  2. Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League Karen Newell Intermediate District 287 Gifted Outreach Services: STEM Academic Services

  3. 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)

  4. 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?

  5. Fermi Problems set kids to thinking about math in their worlds…..

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. Sometimes it’s a drawing that has been scanned and sent as a jpeg file.

  9. Sometimes it’s a picture of a poster that has been taken with a digital camera…. and sent as a jpeg file.

  10. 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……

  11. 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.

  12. Can your guess what the question was?

  13. Fermi is topical AND seasonable

  14. We are popular with teachers. Sometimes.

  15. How Many Lincolns in the Trunk of a Lincoln?

  16. Hand-drawn vs. graphics-based

  17. 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

  18. 6-week Winter Session begins January 28, 2014.Let’s Rock…and Roll!

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