Tired of PowerPoint after PowerPoint after PowerPoint after PowerPoint after PowerPoint? While, making a good PowerPoint is a great skill for a high school student to have. Students will quickly hit a wall with the software and not learn any new tricks. I think it’s important when I do a project that I’m teaching a […]
Sploder — Cool Website Spotlight
Does every student in your class want to design a video game? Sometimes I’ve felt that way. They certainly love playing games in the computer lab when I’m not looking. When I was tasked with designing a 21st century technology course, I knew we’d be in the lab a lot. Video Games are a natural […]
Theme Park Tycoon — Integrated Math Project
Weeeeeeeee! Any teacher knows ANY period can be a roller coaster ride. In this 21st Century Math Project, Variables & Expressions go to the Amusement Park in this engaging four assignment unit designed for Algebra or Pre-Algebra. Bring variables to life using a theme park motif. From park operations to admissions, variables and expressions are […]
Wiffleball — Sports-Based Statistics Project
Take your class out to the ball game Theoretical and Experimental Probability gets a facelift in this interactive game-based 21st Century Math Project. Tired of flipping coins and spinning spinners? Students play the role of team managers and with only player statistics they must build a team capable of winning the championship. Name: Wiffleball Suggested Grade […]
Population Growth: Seven Billion and Counting… — International STEM Project
Wait until the robots start cloning us… As the world’s population has ballooned in the past three centuries researchers wait for the other pen to drop. Currently sitting at a cool 7 billion (and counting), researchers believe (based on their models) that the world’s population will top out at 9.2 billion. In this 21st Century […]
Superhero Transformations — Hands-On STEM Project
Mathematical Swagg Power Up! The first-ever 21st Century Math Project Blog poll winner is now an official 21st Century Math Project. Turn your Geometry, Algebra 2 or Pre-Calculus classroom into Superhero City while teaching the useful skills of tranformations. Specifically focusing on translations and reflections, heroes paired with a specific mathematics function family, have to zap enemies all over […]
Oscar Winner — Inquiry Project
And the winner of greatest blog visitor is… Glitz, glamor and a 21st Century Math Project. These three things go together like peas, carrots and bubble yum. Utilize twenty years of Oscar winners (from 1990-2010) as a data set to guide your students through creating box and whisker plots, histograms, and exploring mean, median, and […]
Combating Poverty & Microlending — International Math Project
Love all your students. Even the annoying ones. The world is getting smaller, we are preparing our students for a global job market, yet many know little about the world. This 21st Century Math Project intends to help! Do you want to grow globally aware citizens in your math classroom? Would you like students that […]
Box Car Derby — STEM Project
I feel the need, the need for practical equation solving Hands-on math takes center stage in this 21st Century Math Project. Implementing STEM style project-based learning is the focus in this middle and high school math project. Along with designing, building and constructing a cardboard car students will use algebra skills to solve basic physics […]
Grade Point Average — Middle & High School Math Project
An attempt to cure the shortsightedness of underclassmen It’s Friday. The Friday. The Friday that signals the end of the grading period. Students dig deep in their backpacks, bake a dozen cookies to schmooze a teacher and turn in as many missing assignments as possible before the final bell. The Honor Roll, the basketball team, […]
