191 Long Distance Airplanes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students make paper airplanes and explore attributes related to increasing flight distances. Each student collects data from three flights of an airplane and finds the median distance the airplane flies.... 192 Pizza, Pizza!: Favorite Pizza Toppings Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this second of three lessons related to pizza, students work in small groups to color pictographs to depict the group's favorite pizza toppings. Two different methods of data collection are suggested, and some groups may come up with other methods.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students collect data about the weather and display the data using line graphs, line plots, stem-and-leaf plots, and displays of multiple sets of data on the same graph. Students need access to a newspaper or other sources for collecting the weather data.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 194 Covering the Plane with Rep-Tiles Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: A rep-tile is a geometric figure such that n copies of the figure can fit together to form a larger, similar figure. In this lesson, students can experiment with various shapes and values of n to see which combinations will tessellate the plane.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 195 Fun with Baseball Stats Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson capitalizes on students' interest in sports to integrate instruction on fractions, decimals, percents, rounding, Cartesian coordinates, probability, and statistics. Students create their own game board using baseball card statistics and then play a simulated baseball game.... 196 Polygon Capture: A Geometry Game Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–8 Professional Commentary: This game requires students to classify polygons according to more than one property at a time. Students identify shapes whose sides and angles satisfy specified criteria, and in so doing, move from a simple description of shapes to an analysis of how properties are related.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–9 Professional Commentary: Students explore relationships among lines, slopes, and y-intercepts in a real-world context of printing textbooks. Students compare three pricing schedules by compiling data in tables and graphs.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 198 Real Estate Tycoon: Selling a Home and Investing the Profits Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–10 Professional Commentary: In this year-long project students design, "build," and "sell" a house, after which they simulate investment of the profits in the stock market. Along the way, students make scale drawings, compute with fractions and decimals in various contexts, and solve simple equations.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 199 Finding Your Way Around Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: This lesson plan provides a wealth of ideas for introducing Cartesian coordinates to students. The teaching activities are organized around two major themes: finding one's way around in the plane and understanding how ordered pairs represent two variables that are changing simultaneously. Students use a city map to locate well-known landmarks. They learn to navigate two-dimensional space with online applets displaying the coordinate... 200 A Videotaping Project to Explore the Multiplication of Integers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, multiplication of integers is presented in a format that encourages understanding, not simply rote memorization of rules. Using the rewinding of a videotape to represent negative time, students convince themselves that a negative rate times a negative time yields a positive distance.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |