Sphero

Math Standards:

2.MD.3 Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

2.MD.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

3.MD.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

4.MD.3 Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems.

4.MD.6 Measure angles in whole number degrees using a protractor. Sketch angles of specified measure.

4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.

6.EE.9 Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another; write an equation to express one quantity, thought of as the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, thought of as the independent variable. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation.

Materials:

Ipad

Sphero Lightning Lab app

Sphero

rulers,pencils, books--> anything for the maze

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How it works:

For us it was a lot of guess and check and trial and error. We tried a maze and then figured out the speed was too fast or the angles weren't right. It was pretty difficult in all honesty but it was really fun thinking through everything and once it all came together I felt so accomplished. I think that students would find this project so fascinating and it would hep work on teamwork and working through a problem!