P.E. is supposed\u00a0to be the place where you go to have fun, and get a break from all the reading and math, but at Moss Haven Elementary in Richardson ISD they have mixed it up a bit.<\/p>\n
“We choose one person to say stop, and when they do that, we add together all our numbers,” said Mattie Koch.<\/p>\n
They’re doing addition and basketball at the same time; they call it brain ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Brain ball is a way to incorporate literacy and math into physical education,” said Christina Fuller, physical education teacher on campus. “You will work your brain and your body when you’re in this class.”<\/p>\n
She works with the math teachers and reviews what the kids are taught in math, as part of PE. <\/p>\n
Class starts out with new drills in basketball, from dribbling to passing. The kids have to master their skills on the court.\u00a0 Each basketball has a number on it, and that number helps Coach Fuller suddenly become Ms. Fuller, the math teacher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Is your number divisible by 3 or not divisible by 3?” she asked while tossing the kids’ basketballs.<\/p>\n
“Adding math and like exercise is just, I don’t know that I would have come up with that honestly,” said Oliver LeDoux, one of the students in the class, but he sure loved doing it.<\/p>\n
Eliza Brinkman, Ellie Van Ande and Mattie Koch got a little lost at one point. They started adding when they should have been doing multiplication.<\/p>\n
The math goes fast, just like a basketball game,\u00a0and if you mess up, there are consequences. They had to do 10 curl-ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That’s what encourages us to do the math,” said Brinkman.<\/p>\n
“I mean, it sounds funny, but even at night, I dream of games. I’ll tell them, alright, I thought of a new game last night while I was sleeping,” said Coach Fuller.<\/p>\n
It’s also helped the kids who don’t enjoy PE. They’re able to flex their math brains in gym class.<\/p>\n
Even though I didn’t like math or PE in school, I had fun. Wesley and Camille let me join their team, and I didn’t have to do any pull-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"P.E. is supposed\u00a0to be the place where you go to have fun, and get a break from all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11949,116,118,117,959],"class_list":["post-183699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-carter-in-the-classroom","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}