By DIANE D’AMICO Education Writer
ATLANTIC CITY — Fifth-grader Drashti Lapsiwala, 10, was on her game, making more than half of her free throws in the New York Avenue School gym.
Azim Coley, 10, sat on the floor, tallying her results and keeping track of how many throws she had left in order to complete 12.
“How do we count by fives?” math coach William Heckman asked, reminding students they can put a slash through their four vertical lines to make a group of five.
Upstairs in a classroom, teacher Jerome Taylor’s seventh-graders had already completed their free throws and were tallying what percentage of throws each student had made, how the girls compared to the boys, and how class fared as a whole.
“I calculated it in fractions, then with a decimal point,” seventh-grader Ayannah Barnes explained.
Fractions and percentages are weak areas among students, math supervisor Ray Allen said. The basketball project is an effort to help students better understand them by applying them to a real-life exercise rather than abstract problems in a book.
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