As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read MoreTGS and PTIS students worked together on their first mathematics integrated project with a host school. Students built catapults and worked in groups to determine the quadratic function that modelled the trajectory of their M&Ms. They then used this quadratic function to determine how far away their catapults needed to be placed from a target in order to hit the target. Overall, it was a very exciting math activity that allowed our students to interact with other 10th grade math students and to apply their mathematical skills.