Magnitudes and measures between the classroom and the school gym

Abstract

This contribution aims to present a didactic experience designed for primary school. The project, conducted in a third grade classroom throughout an entire school year, implied the organization of a sport tournament inspired by a popular TV Show called Giochi Senza Frontiere (It’s a Knockout!). The students work on conventional units of measurement, investigate how they work, and also how to use instruments of measurement in an appropriate way; finally, they are asked to conceive and to handle some team games for their schoolmates. The topics developed in the classroom within the context Magnitudes and measures thus become games of movement and teamwork in the school gym, from an interdisciplinary perspective between mathematics and motor skills.