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New Students, New Opportunities to Learn!

On February 4, 2019 · In Blog

Last week, we started our first session at West Rock STREAM Academy.  The first session for each group requires students to take their initial pre-Sportsometry assessment to help our team of instructors measure our students’ current skills.  Second, third, and fourth grade will be exploring place values, digits, rounding, graphs, coin values, fractions, and in-depth addition/subtraction this [...]

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Divide and Conquer!

On January 30, 2019 · In Blog

Switching from our lesson all about multiplication using the standard algorithm, we transitioned last week into long division- a familiar concept among 5thgraders, but still a relatively new idea to 4thgrade. 

Fourth grade has started learning division inside their classrooms using “chunking” (AKA partial quotients method)- a method which has students taking away portions of the [...]

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Off to a Great Start!

On January 17, 2019 · In Blog

Welcome Back! We have already begun our Spring semester, and the students are equally excited as we are! 

This past week, we started teaching multiplication with our 4thand 5thgrade students at Booker T. Washington Academy.  Our 4thgraders have already learned how to multiply using the “open ray” method, but have not yet learned how to use [...]

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Racing Through the Week!

On November 20, 2018 · In Blog

Last week was unexpectedly short due to our first snowfall of the season!  Although we missed a day of Sportsometry with our LEAP students on Thursday, we had a great two days with our 2ndand 3rdgraders at Booker T. Washington where both groups practiced their new math skills racing through obstacle courses and relay races! 

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A Short Week Filled With Tons of Fun!

On November 13, 2018 · In Blog

Despite having a shorter week due to election day, it was still packed with excitement! 

We continued our lesson of rounding numbers with our Wednesday group of third graders. Inside the classroom, we plotted numbers on a number line and rounded them to the nearest 10.   Some students even moved on to rounding three digit [...]

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Fractional Shapes and Rounding With our Sportsometrists!

On November 7, 2018 · In Blog

Building on our shapes lesson, last week we moved on to include fractional parts of shapes. Second grade students worked with halves, thirds, and fourths and completed practice worksheets identifying how a shape was divided and how to divide one themselves. Transitioning to the gym, these athletes were divided into different teams where a fraction [...]

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Rock, Paper (Place Value), Scissor (Shapes), SHOOT!

On October 30, 2018 · In Blog

Our Sportsometry scholars really impressed us last week, both at Booker T. Washington Academy and LEAP.  Throughout the week, we covered place value and shape attributes and identification. 

On Tuesday with 2ndGrade students, we reviewed shapes including: triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons.  Students practice skills on a worksheet that asked them to match and recreate [...]

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Two Locations, Double the Fun

On October 23, 2018 · In Blog

This fall at Sportsometry, we have been having fun in two different locations: Booker T Washington Academy and L.E.A.P.  

Here’s a recap of what our students learned last week:  

In grade 2 at Booker T. Washington, we practiced place value. Students learned the value of a digit, which is dependent on its number [...]

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Spotlight on Sportsometry Instructors: Meet MacArthur

On August 1, 2017 · In Blog

MacArthur joins us for his second summer with Sportsometry.  MacArthur is a certified Social Studies and History teacher for grades 7-12 and has his Master’s Degree in Secondary Education in Social Studies from University of Bridgeport.  MacArthur is also a very accomplished athlete.  In high school, he was selected as the New Haven County [...]

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Spotlight on Sportsometry Instructors: Meet Leah

On July 14, 2017 · In Blog

This summer, Sportsometry has added Leah Rivers to our team of instructors.  Leah comes to us through the City of New Haven’s Youth@Work program.  This spring, Leah graduated from Wilbur Cross High School and will be attending St. John’s University as a freshman in the fall where she will run track and field.

Leah is [...]

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