MBJH tries fun approach to math

Geometry students at Mountain Brook Junior High are applying their knowledge of special quadrilaterals by creatively incorporating the various properties into children’s books, short stories, comic strips and mysteries. 

According to teachers Sara Anne Thomas and Brittany Wilson, the students did not even realize they were studying and preparing for their test while writing because they were having so much fun. Denson Camp said the project “was fun putting geometrical shapes into a murder mystery based on the movie ‘Clue.’

Jack Steinmetz based his short story off of the popular story Jack and the Beanstalk. Lucy Woodke based her story on one of her childhood favorites, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear.” 

Hannah Straughn wrote a poem based on Dr. Seuss’ “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” in which the characters were introduced to different shapes to discover their properties. 

Louise Knight wrote a mystery about quadrilaterals in which the square was the guilty party. 

– Submitted by Collins Clegg.