Welcome to Math Relay!
Where kids come to learn, work as a team, and have fun!
The purpose of this
event is to bring together 4th, 5th, and 6th
grade students from different elementary, intermediate,
and middle schools for a fun, yet challenging,
competitive experience. Both physical and academic
skills will be addressed as the individual runners
of each relay team answer ten basic math facts
questions and negotiate an obstacle course 50
yards long.
Each team will be comprised of twenty students
(10 boys and 10 girls). It does not make any
difference what grade level the team members are in, as long
as they are all in the 4th, 5th, or 6th grade,
or any combination of these grades. Some schools
may choose to send only teams comprised of
one particular grade level, while others may send
teams of multi-grade students. We hope the following
information will be helpful in deciding whether
you would like to participate in this event
this year.
Hope to see you there!!!
~ Team Washington's Math Relay
Check out Math Relay!
Note: MATH RELAY CANCELLED
THIS YEAR!
All registrations are currently being returned.
Hi All:
It is with great sadness that I bring you this news......The Math
Relay will not take place this year! I will send back the few
registration
forms and $$ that have been collected this year.
Steve & I
have had over half of the schools email us with regrets of
not being able to attend this year's event. The reasons vary
from financial
strain in their districts, the later date, kids gone to camp,
schools are out, field days, etc.
The problem really occurred
when the state went to a month long testing schedule. Our district
then
moved the week long student-led conferences which include ½ days
and no school on the 1st Friday in June, which has been the traditional
day for over 25 years. We then tried to move the event to the next
week, but we ran into stadium issues with graduation, other schools
were at 5th & 6th grade camps, and many of the private
schools were out for the Summer. If we move it to the end of
April, we
lose the weather and the facilities are being used by classes,
track teams, other events, etc.
Like all schedules, there
was a magical balance that occurred with the 1st Friday in June,
and that's why we used that day for so many years. However, with
the
disruption of dates, it appears the Math Relay will no longer
be realistic. We only had about 16 teams, that could attend.......and
that just did not seem like the event we all know and love.
Steve & I
would like to thank all of you for working with kids over the
years, and having fun with Math & PE! If anything changes in
the future, then we will discuss resurrection at that time.
So....the
Math Relay guys are signing off!
Kyle & Steve
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Coaches Corner:
- Please remember to equip each team with a stop watch.
We will not have extras at the field. Please bring your own.
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- Absolutely NO Food
or Gum on the Field, only in stands.
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- Ten Math Facts Table:
When at the Ten Math Facts Table, Every Math fact attempted incorrectly
will result in one penalty push-up*.Students MUST STAND UP and ATTEMPT
the math fact before taking the penalty push-up not in-place of.
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