Fidget Spinners: Math in Motion

If a fidget spinner is better at holding a student’s interest than my math lesson, it’s not the fidget spinner than needs to go! Let’s use them to help the students see the math in their everyday life math in a fun and engaging way. Students will gather and interpret data, convert measurements of time, graph data, and even use online software if you wish.

As a “S.T.E.M. in Action” lesson, you’ll find all four components of a true S.T.E.M. curriculum represented.

Science — Students design an experiment in a lesson that involves the physics of centripetal force and friction.

Technology — Students use graphing software to aggregate and study data.

Engineering — Students design an experiment to test whether the cost of a fidget spinner is related to its performance.

Math — Students measure time, convert it to seconds, collect, represent, and interpret data, make box plots, and look at data correlation.