Tioga Center, New York is a small town off 17C between Nichols and Owego, New York. It has one post office and a small general store. Tioga has a population of around 1200 students total between the elementary, middle and high school. Known for its friendly atmosphere and small class sizes, Tioga offers children an opportunity to succeed beyond all limits.

Our math trial began in the fourth grade classroom of Mrs. Gill. Mrs. Gill has been a teacher for 34 years and is continuing for another year before retiring at 35 years in the educational system. She has been at Tioga for all of her teaching career and at the fourth grade level for 31 of those 34 years. The latest area in math that she has been teaching is area, perimeter and volume (recently introduced). Some students picked to do their math trial right in the classroom and surrounding areas in the building, so this is where we shall begin the math trail.

1. Find the area of the various items measured. (Stephanie Jump, age 10)

1. A window measuring 9 inches by 12 inches.
2. A sidewalk that is 5 feet by 9 feet.
3. A sidewalk square that is 3 ft by 3ft.
4. A board that is 9 inches by 10 inches.

2. Our classroom is 11 meters by 11 meters. How many square meters would it take

to fill the floor? Find the area. (Michaela Alexander, age 10)

3. My desk is 57 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters long. What is the area of my

desk? (Tanisha Baldwin, age 11)

4. The length of the boys bathroom is 26 feet. The width is 12 feet. What is the area of the boys bathroom?

Now, we continue on our math trail outside.

5. The school steps are each 8 feet long and 7 inches wide. What is the area of one step? If the area of one step is 672 inches, what is the total area of 4 steps?

(Katie Cordi, age 10)

6. If the bus is 10 meters long and 2.14 meters wide, what is the area of the bus?

(Nicholas Moore, age 9)

7. The school bus is 10 meters long and 2 meters, 14 cm wide. What is the perimeter

of the bus? (Floyd Alderman, age 11)

8. What is the perimeter of one slab if the slab is a perfect square and a side is

measured at 1m 66cm long. (Jessica Byrne, age 10)

9. If a tile on the sidewalk is 7m and 66 cm long what is the area? The tile is a perfect

square. (Sean Whitney, age 10)

10. One person walks from the elementary school steps to the high school steps. There

are 107 squares in the sidewalk. If each square is 160cm long, how far is it from

the elementary steps to the high school steps? (Kayla Pond, age 10)

11. One of the parking spots is 12 of my feet. My foot is 23 cm long. How long is the

parking spot?

12. One row of the parking lot is 66m long. There are 2.25m to a parking spot. How

many parking spots are in one row? (Leila Johnson, age 11)

13. I looked up and saw 31 birds flying together, then 5 flew away. How many birds

are there now? (Tanisha Baldwin, age 11)

Answers:

1. a 108 square inches

b. 45 square feet

c. 9 square feet

d. 90 square inches

2. 121 square meters

3. 2,280 square centimeters

4. 312 square feet

5. a. 672 square inches, b. 2,688 square inches

6. 21.4 square meters

7. 24.28 meters

8. 664 centimeters or 6 meters, 64 centimeters

9. 586,756 square centimeters

10. 17,120 centimeters or approximately 562 feet

11. 384 centimeters long

12. 29 parking spots in a row

13. 26 birds are left

Thanks for visiting our school and we hope you enjoyed our math trail. Math is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!