After meeting every Monday for eight weeks, we are proud to present our Girls’
Special Projects finished stories by our students! After reading the Number Devil,
we created three groups of girls, each with a volunteer, who we met through Zoom
each week to brainstorm and draft unique math stories. During the drafting process,
we shared documents to write down ideas and plan out story events, with girls free
to write and ask each other questions. After three weeks of meeting and writing,
each group of girls created their own math story, with all of them combining humor,
creativity, and math concepts all in one.
Linear Addition, written by Shriya and Anuragini, is set in 3001, and narrates the
accidental adventure of two humans to Mars. After landing with a damaged rocket,
the two Earthlings have to work together with two aliens living on Mars, using
measurement conversions, geometry, and addition using variables to figure out how
to repair their rocket, which will determine the possibility of their journey back to
Earth.
Mice Algorithm, written by Hannah, Daria, Anika, and Savannah, depicts Algorithm
Land, a place inhabited by mice. An evil cat, named Fib, is planning to steal the
“GREAT CHEESE” during a village festival while the mice are distracted, in order to
acquire its powerful mathematical qualities. Caught in the act by three mice, who
share names with famous mathematicians, Fib fails to steal the cheese and meets his
fate in Time Turtle Town.
Our third math story, narrates a girl named Emily is magically transported to a
pirate ship which docks on an island filled with candy. They go on to discover flora
and fauna made of candy, such as trees of different flavors, like mint, chocolate,
banana, and strawberry. They go on different adventures to a stationary shop,
where they work with pen and pencil supplies to solve problems that will bring
them home.
To help celebrate National Math Storytelling Day, read these stories, linked in this blog post, and get inspired to write your own math story.
