Math is everywhere in Rosemary Beach Florida!
Preparation prior to lesson:
- Email sent to students with directions.
- Video camera available for student use throughout the lesson
Facilitator and Student Steps:
- Introduce essential question: Is math really everywhere?
- Activate prior knowledge: Discussed book previously read called Math Curse.
- Taking action: Students left OH to find math problems. They recorded them o their phones or on paper.
- Each student completes the math blog about the process.
Here is your frame today for your "Math Around Town" lesson.
Essential Question - Is Math Really Everywhere?
1. Come up with 3 good addition problems - Write them down and solve (be creative - Don't do something like - I have two leaves in one hand and one leaf in the other, how many do I have - be LOCATION SPECIFIC - like this. . .In five minutes, 12 cars passed on 30A. How many would pass in an hour if it is consistent?)
2. Come up with 3 subtraction problems - write and solve
3. Come up with 3 multiplication problems (be creative)
4. Come up with 3 division problems (make them fun)
All problems, results, and pictures if available will go on your math blog.
Sample Student Blog Entry:
3 squares a foot how much in 9 miles? 5280 ft a mile: 47,520 bricks in nine miles.
1 dot a cm how much in a mile? 160,934
IS EVERYTHING A MATH PROBLEM AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Today we measured the room. The walls the celeen and the floor. I had to do the floor. But the answer was 675,374cm2.
Area is the painter.
Volume is the bricks.
The xmas tree is 29 ft. No its 54 ft.
Today we measured the x-mas tree.
Links to student math blogs:
http://eruderoh.blogspot.com/p/math_5901.html
http://trae-ohjournal.blogspot.com/p/math.html
http://hweldonoh.blogspot.com/p/math.html
http://jhollingeroh.blogspot.com/p/math.html
