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Submitted by:\nJocelyn Beehler
\n(on behalf of CBFCS)<\/p>\n
Submitted by:
\nJocelyn Beehler
\n(on behalf of CBFCS)<\/p>\n
Community Bible Fellowship Christian School students Gr.1-8 participated in an online math competition that was open to all schools in the province.
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\nThe contest involved students answering math questions through an online game called \u201cSumdog.\u201d 13 schools participated in the 1-week competition. During the contest 340 students across the province correctly answered over 375,000 math questions. CBFCS had 28 students that participated and correctly answered almost 70,000 questions. In order to qualify and earn points a school had to have at least 15 students participate. The average correct answers per student in each school contributed to the overall scores of the school. CBFCS finished the week with 2,485 points and the nearest competitor was Ecole Bannatyne School with 1,364. Thanks to the hard work of our students the school has won a permanent site license for Yenka Mathematics \u2013 an online educational math website ($750 value).<\/p>\n
Students also competed against each other individually and there was recognition for the top 10 students overall. CBFCS had 4 students in the top 10 and would like to congratulate Sam Girgis (Gr.6), Jonathan Friesen (Gr.6) , Reid Scouten (Gr.7), and Jadzea Scales (Gr.6) for their diligent efforts. All our students worked hard answering questions during class, at recess, after school and over a weekend.<\/p>\n
From an educational standpoint this was an awesome way to get our students to practice their math facts in a fun way. I don\u2019t think that it would have been possible to get the students to practice over 70,000 questions in a week during regular math class\u2026 at least not with an enthusiastic attitude. A nice feature of this free online math game is that it starts off asking the students very simple questions. As students answer questions correctly it automatically increases the difficulty until they start getting a few wrong and then it decreases the difficulty until it matches the level they are at. This made it where our Gr. 1 students could be just as successful as our Gr. 8 students and every student could practice at a level that was achievable. <\/p>\n
The Sumdog website had many game options (not just one). As students were answering questions they were also doing a fun task. I think this kept them interested. One may think that the students could just click on anything to get an answer and that it wouldn\u2019t really show what they knew but, the students knew that only correct answers counted in the challenge. This prevented students from rushing through carelessly. We introduced the challenge to the students and gave them a few extra math classes through the week. Their competitive attitudes shone through immediately. They begged to play during any available minute. Here are some of the student\u2019s responses when asked about the game:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so much fun, I didn\u2019t even realize it was math work!\u201d
\n(Corbin Legebokoff \u2013 Gr.2)<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed help to login but my favorite game was the \u201cInvasion\u201d
\n(Ruben LeRoux \u2013 Gr.1)<\/p>\n
\u201cI am fairly competitive and wanted to win so I called my classmates on the weekend to get them to play.\u201d
\n(Jonathan Friesen \u2013 Gr.6)<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite game was called \u201cJunk Pile.\u201d It was fun to do math on the computer and have a change from regular class.
\n(Flint Switzer \u2013 Gr.7)<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so excited when I realized we had a chance to win that I encouraged my classmates to play after school.\u201d
\n(Dylan Liske \u2013 Gr.8)<\/p>\n
The Sumdog website is available to the students to play for free regardless of the completion. Students can log in as a guest and then play. For educators and parents this is an awesome website that is educational, safe and fun and can be found at www.sumdog.com. Thanks again to our students for working so hard and learning your math facts. Thanks to the teachers for being flexible with our math classes and to parents for letting your children play this online game at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Submitted by: Jocelyn Beehler (on behalf of CBFCS) Community Bible Fellowship Christian School students Gr.1-8 participated in an online math competition that was open to all schools in the province. The contest involved students answering math questions through an online game called \u201cSumdog.\u201d 13 schools participated in the 1-week competition. During the contest 340 students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}