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After getting information from advertising statistics available on the Internet, students will calculate percent increases (or percent decreases) for the top 25 companies in terms of advertising dollars spent during a year. |
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"Man, he really put his weight into that one!", "The only reason he gets more rebounds is because he is so tall!", "They don't cover him anymore because he is so old, that is why he catches so many passes! "Are any of these statements legitimate? The students will examine the league leaders in each of these categories to see if there is any truth to those statements. |
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You will soon be in the position of getting your driver's license and looking for a car. In all of the excitement, you are faced with a number of decisions which need to be made before you actually purchase your car. Through this unit you will research every aspect that a person goes through when purchasing a car. |
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A trip across the USA. Each team will choose any state capital on the east coast as their starting point. They will travel west stopping at each state capital along the way and record miles traveled. Each student group will create a chart or table showing the number of miles traveled from state capital to state capital and then total number of miles driven. Be the team to reach Sacramento, California with the fewest number of miles traveled to win the prize. |
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Time has run out in the big basketball game, and the score is tied. However, Up-State College has the ball with time out. You're the coach. Which players should you put into the game to give you the best chance of winning? This is one in a series of on-line interactive pages exploring probability and statistics in real life. These lessons utilize on-line simulations to generate data. |
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What science and math exist in a roller coaster? You will enter the world of roller coasters via hands-on activities, Internet information, online experts, and computer simulations. |
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Great Aunt Betty left you $1,000 to go towards your college fund. Now, you will be investing your new found money into a 30 month CD. The account will be automatic, since it will be done through the Web site. Your job will be to calculate the growth of your CD for seven years. |
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Grandma is coming for a visit tomorrow, and her doctor has put her on a fat free diet. You have found a fat free recipe for pancakes, which serves eight. Since Grandma can't eat eight pancakes, you'll need to find 1/2 of the recipe. Mom found out about your neat idea and wanted to taste your creation, so now you need to find 3/4 of the recipe. |
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After getting information from the past baseball season off the Internet, students will calculate an attendance-to-win ratio for each of the 28 major league teams and then study the results to see if winning always leads to good attendance. |
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You have won a $25.00 gift certificate to the Grist Mill Restaurant and Bow Mills Pub for a dinner. You will choose an appetizer, salad, and beef or seafood for your dinner. The catch is, you'll need to stay within the $25.00 budget. |
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Students will locate 6 cities, one on each of the 6 major continents. They will find distance for each leg of their journey, convert to percents, use a time zone map, and convert to foreign currencies. The class will estimate the circumference of the earth and find the range, mean, median, mode(s) and possible outliers for the estimates. |
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Students will use the Internet to find a 5 day forecast and use the graphing page to graph that forecast. |
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A lesson written to assist teachers in using the Wireman project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The application, Wireman, allows students to put wireframe objects like: spheres, cylinders, cones, squares, and super spheroids together to make a picture. They can add color and other attributes to each object in the picture. A fly file is created by taking snapshots of the picture from various eye positions. The fly files are then sent up to the supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory over a modem through your Internet provider to be processed and changed into animated movies. After downloading the movie files you view them through another application called Movie. |
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Using small individual bags of M&Ms;, students will do activities including, estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, and averaging. |
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You are going to Magic Mountain! Everyone has a favorite roller coaster. Some are fast, or loopy, or crazy. You will discover the highest, and fastest coaster in Magic Mountain. |
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You and your classmates will create crossword puzzles that use the definitions of math terms you use as clues. The terms will be the answers which go into the puzzle. |
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This is a lesson designed to help review math skills. In addition, map skills are also reviewed. Hopefully, geographic knowledge of Europe is improved. To complete this lesson a basic knowledge of percents, area, map reading, estimating, and rounding will be used. A three inch strip of paper will be needed. |
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Students will determine how much they would need to feed a family for a month. Students will plan meals and use Internet grocery stores to find the cost of individual food items. |
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Are we faster, stronger, better than we used to be? Compare the records of gold medal Olympic winners for the last 100 years and decide. |
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Students start by collecting and rounding data about their school. They move on to gathering and rounding larger numbers from the Internet. |
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Students will plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice. The main assignment is to make a brochure to travel to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to take this trip. It should include fares for planes, trains, rental cars etc., cost of housing and meals, points of interest to visit in the cities. |
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An interdisciplinary project (mathematics, social studies) where students choose a county in the United States and using ratios convert the statistics into meaningful numbers. |
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Let's make pumpkin pie for the whole class! Imagine making enough pie so that everyone could have a piece. How about enough pie to take one home. The only problem is that the recipe you have makes 1 pie at a time which only has 8 pieces. |
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California's San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the world. Raisins are an important part of the valley's agriculture. This activity will prompt students to estimate and count how many raisins come in a box and then chart the results. |
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This is a writing assignment in which the student uses the Internet to locate a famous mathematician that shares his or her own birthday. |
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As a mathematical beginning to their state reports students complete a 2 day assignment which involves critical thinking, reasoning, graphing, and locating information on Web sites. |
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It's your birthday and your parents have given you the choice of going to any one of five amusement parks in California. There is just one catch! They have asked that you choose one with an entrance fee that is the median price range. Surf the Internet to find how much it will cost for your family to go to each park. Graph your findings. |
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Using Computers to Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs Using data from the Glencoe Math book, from Internet sources or data of your own choice, learn what information and formulas to use to create a spreadsheet and the bar graphs to show the data pictorially. |
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Students will use the Internet to calculate rates of exchange from US currency to other countries. This activity will help in understanding conversion techniques. |
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This is a segment of a larger Social Studies Project. Students use a variety of Internet sources to gather income and population data. They then use the data to compare states and make decisions. |
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