Thanks to help from local businesses and two Carroll Middle School (CMS) teachers, students have learned new innovative ways to help them with mathematics. Kids in Josh Lucken and Callie Haupert’s 5th-grade classes participated in a fraction pizza box project. Lucken explains the background of how this innovative learning experience got started.
According to Lucken, the students enjoyed designing the pizza boxes and saw the real-life math work they did in class. Lucken adds there were two winners. The winner for best design was Trinity Areias a 5th grader, with the award for best overall going to Cade Wruck who is also in 5th grade. Lucken says Areias’s family was able to help her put together her box with a theme from the movie “Finding Nemo.”
Lucken says Wruck’s favorite aspect of the project was the details that went into making the pizza box.
Haupert and Lucken were both pleased with the amount of effort, production, and creativity that went into each box. They say this project would not have been possible without the support from Pizza Hut and Casey’s, who donated the materials.
