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Winning A Game With Probability

Matt — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:49:50 +0000

In this lesson students will play a game with dice and examine the probability to discover a strategy that gives them the best chance of winning. A game that is sure to engage all students.

Concepts: Probability, Sample Space, Theoretical vs. Experimental

Student Activity: Playing a game of chance with peers

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Bar Graphing An Inquiry

Matt — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:26:55 +0000

In this lesson students will ask questions and answer questions about stuff they care about and then summarize their data in a single or double bar graph.

Concepts: Graphing, Bar Graph, Double Bar Graph

Student Activity: Asking and answering questions then graphing the results

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Discovering Pi

Matt — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:31:01 +0000

In this lesson students will discover where the number Pi is actually derived from. They will use personal objects to aide in this discovery which will take the real-life aspect and help them cement an understanding of circles that is often not discussed.

Concepts: Pi, Circumference, Diameter, Area of Circles, Measurement

Student Activity: Bringing in a circular object and measuring theirs and their partners’

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Symmetrical Beauty

Matt — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:15:23 +0000

In this lesson students use line symmetry to mathematically determine how symmetrical a celebrity’s face is and possibly to see if math can help us define beauty.

Concepts: Line Symmetry, Measurement

Student Activity: Drawing lines of symmetry comparison on a celebrity’s face

Additional Materials: You will need pictures of faces. I used pictures of Beyonce and Drake for my class.

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Shopping Stacked Discounts

Matt — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:45:50 +0000

In this lesson students “shop” for items and discover why stores often only let you take an additional discount off the sale price and not the original price.

Concepts: Percents, Percent Discounts, Applying Consecutive Discounts
Student Activity: “Shopping” on Amazon.com

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More Proportions Lessons?

Matt — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:46:44 +0000

I’m in the middle of teaching proportions and all the types of problems you can solve using them and I think I am realizing that I need some more real-life based lessons on using proportions. I have the “how tall is that?” and the dream bedroom lessons currently – both deal with proportions in strong ways. The problem is I’m in the middle of winter right now and going outside to do the “how tall is that?” doesn’t sound very appealing and I save the dream bedroom lesson until the end of the year to lead into building the dream house. So in the near future I think I’ll be looking at ways to use the properties of indirect measurement, scale factor, conversion, or maybe just basic proportional reasoning in the classroom. I love the idea of doing activities outside the classroom, but it often times isn’t very practical. How do you feel?

The Patterns Of Nature

Matt — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:00:40 +0000

In this lesson students will analyze and create mathematical sequences and number patterns and then create visual representations of them. Students will learn that patterns that occur naturally in nature and ones that are manmade have a mathematical underlying to them.

Concepts: linear and nonlinear patterns, arithmetic and geometric sequences, numeric and visual patterns
Student Activity: create and draw a visual pattern

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Graphing Running

Matt — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:30:26 +0000

In this lesson students will mathematically visualize their running by graphing it. The lesson focuses on comparing linear and nonlinear progressions (constant vs. variable rate of change) as well as simply reading graphs and interpreting what they are showing you and even some prediction.

Concepts: graphing, comparing linear and nonlinear patterns and graphs
Student Activity: running and timing to gather data

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The Dangers of Credit Cards

Matt — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:54:44 +0000

In this lesson students will fictitiously shop with a credit card and use integers to discover why credit cards can be dangerous. The lesson focuses on some integer operation rules such as adding two negatives, subtracting a negative, and multiplying a negative and a positive. The lesson can be used to show why these rules are used and give the answers they give. Please view the teacher/parent lesson guide for more details.

Concepts: integers and rules of integers
Student Activity: purchasing items with a fictitious credit card and discovering how the math affects how much you owe

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Life’s Order Of Operations

Matt — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:16:31 +0000

In this lesson students will cement understanding of order of operations while seeing how this often boring math subject can relate to the rules and order we have to follow in life to accomplish even the most basic tasks.

Concepts: order of operations
Student Activity: creating a poster that diagrams the real-life activity compared to the order of operations

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