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  • Gordon Kidd and Jake Perkins participate in a math-related game Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Elementary. Derrick Miller/The Duncan Banner

    Gordon Kidd and Jake Perkins participate in a math-related game Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Elementary.

  • Austin Baxter correctly answers Cindy Millirons' math question Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Elementary. Derrick Miller/The Duncan Banner

    Austin Baxter correctly answers Cindy Millirons' math question Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Elementary.
July 2, 2012

Students excel at math field day

Derrick Miller The Duncan Banner

DUNCAN — Students enrolled in the Duncan Public School’s Summer Academy discovered learning can be fun as they participated in a math field day.

The field day Thursday included a series of math-related games, where students had to use their brains to do well.

For the past four weeks, several Duncan first- through fourth-grade students, who have enrolled in the Summer Academy at Woodrow Wilson, having been learning about and increasing their skills in reading and math.

In all, about 75 students enrolled in the Summer Academy.

During the math field day, students rotated with their classes through six games.

The games included a watermelons seed spitting contest, where students had to guess how far they could spit seeds and measure how far their seeds actually went.

There was also a memory game where students had to walk a path on a chalk-outlined graph.

The path was configured by Cindy Bradburry, Woodrow Wilson third-grade teacher.

As the students tried to figure out which way to go, other students had to use their memories to determine which blocks of the grid made up the path.

“It’s all about math,” Woodrow Wilson Principal Carol Phipps said.

Zrinity Scott and Angel Reyes were among the students who participated in the Summer Academy and the math field day. Both completed fourth grade in May.

Scott was enjoying the math field day because it gave her an opportunity to test her mathematical knowledge.

“I liked it,” Scott said.

Reyes also had a good time learning during Thursday’s event.

“It was fun,” she said. “I liked getting to move.”

Both acknowledged the importance of the Summer Academy, especially how it gives some students more one-on-one time with a teacher.  They said the summer school program helped them learn more about reading and math.

“It’s fun getting to learn,” Reyes said.

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