What’s “Width” Cereal Boxes — 7607
Summary Why are most cereal boxes the same basic shape and size? Who decided that the rectangle was the most efficient use of surface area? …
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Magic Number Walk – 7280
Summary Each pair of students will take a number walk and take pictures, with an iPad, of sets depicting its given number (1-10). Then, each …
Snow Me The Time – 7322
Summary The students used prior knowledge on telling time and making times with the hour and minute hands on the clock to create a dream …
The Perfect Pumpkin Package – 7085
Summary Students are presented with the following problem: A classmate has moved away to a location where pumpkins cannot grow. You have to decide how …
Graphing a Line – 7567
Summary Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach. In this lesson students were given the task of creating a presentation on solving linear …
#InstaAnthropomorphicQuads – 8169
Summary This lesson is designed to endear students with an increased level of relativity to the unique properties of each type of quadrilateral, by asking …
How would you balance the US Federal Budget? – 8362
Summary President Obama has asked us to help him with the budget for the Federal Government for the year 2013. Though our many SchoolSpace discussion …
Unit Price Field Trip – 7648
Summary How is math used in everyday life? One great example involves shopping. Students learned about unit price in Math and in Independent Living class. …
Pathway to College – 8361
Summary Students were taught how to model a project with a mathematical graph and find important information from it – called a critical path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method …
Picture Building with Shapes – 7521
Summary During this lesson, the students will be used the Pixie computer program to combine the basic shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle, square) to create a …