"PokemonGo is getting my students engaged with the metric system!"

#PokemonGO: Hello fellow travelers!I wanted to share this nice story with everyone. I teach MS science and I had some 5th graders in my room yesterday. We were beginning to talk about the metric system, which for them (in the US) is pretty unfamiliar.At one point, after going over the basic units, a student asked "So, how many grams are in a kilogram?" I responded and then another student (who is generally a bit of a trouble-maker) timidly raises his hand and says "Wait, so then how many meters in a kilometer?" I got him to recognize that it was also 1,000, which was cool, but then he says, with bit of wonder in his voice "So I have to walk 10,000 meters to hatch an egg..."Now, this student is not particularly strong in math, so even the fact that he correctly multiplied those "big" numbers was great.But then we used his comment as a springboard to calculate the number of meters it would take to hatch the eggs, and to see how many eggs you'd have to hatch to get a certain number candies to evolve different Pokemon, and then the number of meters to get that many candies.It was awesome, and really got the kids into the lesson. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2dg6cUT