Running an in-house (or, rather, in-classroom) Caption Contest at the end of each week provided us with the perfect laboratory in which to discuss these all-important issues of pacing, music, and weight.
She told about a recent day when Moore lost a classroom "Jeopardy -style contest and a puzzle game played by the team.
In 2012, two PhD students in the lab of Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, hatched the idea of bringing that type of contest into the classroom.
This paradigm exaggerates the difference between contest math and classroom math.
The site is used as part of a stock market contest among 150 classrooms in 15 states.
Researchers also found that classroom debates and essay-writing contests on whether students should be taught about condoms to prevent the spread of H.I.V. increased the use of condoms without increasing sexual activity.
Speaking solo at a TEDx Mile High conference, starting a school health club, putting on a play-writing contest, creating an outdoor classroom... Youth voice is power, youth voice is action, and youth voice is change".
Students have many learning options outside the classroom, including student groups, clubs, design contests, guest lectures, seminars, and more.
While collecting recyclables, if you find that not many classrooms are recycling, host a Recycling Contest.
While classroom math does mainly boil down to memorization, contest math is hardly anything close to full-blown creativity.
