1 Geometric Solids and Their Properties Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–10 Professional Commentary: In this interactive geometry investigation, students explore geometric solids and their properties. There are five parts to the investigation that include the rotation of shapes on the computer screen as well as plans for straw "construction" of solids and patterns for "nets." The site includes a "Thoughts for Teachers" section and downloadable student materials.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First 2 Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns: Two-Square Repeating Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Fostering the ability to create and analyze simple patterns and make predictions about them is a major learning goal in the primary grades. Using the interactive computer applet, students create and study different pattern units.... Projects: COR 3 Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns: Multiple-Square Repeating Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Patterns are a way for students to recognize order and are important in all aspects of mathematics. Creating pattern units with the interactive applet can be beneficial for students who are not yet successful in creating their own patterns with physical manipulatives.... Projects: COR 4 Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns: Different Representations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Even before formal schooling, children develop beginning concepts related to patterns, functions, and algebra. In this activity, students use the interactive computer applet to create and study red and blue connecting-cube patterns.... Projects: COR 5 Creating, Describing, and Analyzing Patterns: Repeating and Growing Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Patterns are a way for young students to recognize order and organize their world and are important in all aspects of mathematics. Help students form generalizations by asking questions such as "How could you describe this pattern?" or "How are these patterns alike?" The "Growing Patterns" activity sheet guides students to analyze and describe how growing patterns are generated, encourages them to explore different ways to interpret the patterns and translate from one form to another, and challenges students to compare growing patterns to repeating patterns.... Projects: COR 6 Witness for the Prosecution: Creating an Online Newspaper Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This integrated language arts unit, created by a high school English teacher, includes many opportunities for reading fiction and nonfiction texts, conducting research using the internet, and producing an online newspaper. Centered around Witness For the Prosecution by Agatha Christie, this unit uses literary response and research as the context in which students produce a... Career Fields: Information Technology Projects: COR, Writing 6-12, Standards First 7 Bottles and Divers: Rates of Change Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson has an introductory activity that uses bottles of various shapes to help students understand rate of change. The lesson then develops the concept of the average rate of change between two points on a curve.... Projects: COR 8 Building Boxes: Polynomials and Rational Functions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore relationships between x-intercepts, factors, and roots of polynomial functions using the graphing calculator. Students also investigate rational functions, identifying the roots and the asymptotes as well as holes (discontinuities) in the graphs.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 9 Getting Out Of Line: Function Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson emphasizes patterns, discovery, and vocabulary by focusing on the basic connections between graphs, tables, and symbolic representations for lines, parabolas, inverse models, and exponential functions. Students investigate various patterns and models using the graphing calculator.... Projects: COR 10 Meadows or Malls?: Using Matrices to Solve Systems Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students use matrices and technology to solve the Meadows or Malls problem, a linear programming problem with six variables. Students who have not done linear programming problems before are advised to begin with The Busing Problem before attempting Meadows or Malls.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First |