Outdoor Math

[Panda3]

I'm looking for a fun and creative math activity to do outdoors with sixth graders. It can be on any sixth grade math topic. Help please! Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Brit]

being in Canada, our curric. might differ from yours. If you give me some topics, I can try to come up with some fun stuff.

[teacher5]

:clap: After we spend some time on fractions, my students learn to make equivalent fractions with the denominator 100, and have also experienced and have a good degree of understanding that percent means out of 100. I also teach them the meaning of the word/job statistician and how this is a possible career where you can earn good money and be part of a sports team. I even invited a statistician from a local indoor lacrosse team to come speak to the class.
I pair off my students. Each student gets a teacher made recording sheet and keeps a tally, with tally marks, of how many shots did my partner make out of 5. They then convert that number out of 5 into a fraction. If you make 2, its two fifths. Next they must change that fraction into one with the denominator of 100 by showing and using the common factor number. After that, they must change that into an equivalent decimal number in hundredths, and finally to a percentage. Try not to put more than five pairs on a line. Tell those who are waiting to shout cheers of encouragement for those who are shooting. Appoint one or two kids from each line to be ball retreivers. Try to make time, re-do, and shoot out of 6 or 8. Somewhere along the way you are going to hear how can I convert 5/6 into an equivalent fraction with the denominator of 100? Six can't go into one hundred evenly! This leads into your next lesson. Of modeling how to divide 6 into 5 and round to hundredths and convet into percentage. After showing them the paper and pencil method, I model how to do this with the calculator. This lesson doesn't come up until November, but it is still warm enough that if the put on their jackets they can go outdoors. I have a back up plan in case it rains or it is too cold. I get the large round plastic garbage cans, put them out in the hall and make a foul line with tape on the floor. If your gym is available, even better.