Bring an authentic environment-based 21st Century Math Project to your Algebra classroom with Multi-step inequalities! Help student understand why we are still getting blizzards in the spring! Paint your classroom green! Figuritively. Don’t literally paint anything Name: Carbon Footprint Suggested Grade Level: 7-12 (Algebra 1, skills) Math Concepts: Multi-step Inequalities, Unit Conversion, Multiple Representations Interdisciplinary Connections: Travel, Local Food, Carbon Emissions, […]
Category: high school math
Correlation All-Star — Integrated Sports Project
Bring an authentic sports-based 21st Century Math Project to your Algebra, Algebra 2 or PreCalculus classroom with Lines of Best Fit and Correlations! In my opinion, correlations are the most under taught skill in all of high school math! I mean for a student to function in the real world, tell my 5 topics that are more […]
Toothpick Bridge — STEM Project
For another smooth integration for your science and math curriculum, this 21st Century Math Project intends to bridge that gap. Hahaha get it? Bridge the gap! And it’s a project about Bridges! You get it? Contest style, students will try to build the strongest bridge as light as possible. Name: Toothpick Bridge Take that toothpick out of your […]
Person Puzzles — Cesar Chavez — Order of Operations
The most anxiously awaited 21st Century Math Project Algebra 1 puzzle unveiling of 2013! Come on down, Cesar Chavez! Farm Workers of America, Unite! Name: Person Puzzle — Cesar Chavez Suggested Grade Level: 7-12 (Algebra, Prealgebra skills) Teaching Duration: 10-30 minutes Cost: $0.75 for a 2 Page PDF (1 assignments and answer key) Person Puzzle – Cesar Chavez @ TPT Cesar […]
CSI: Geometry — International STEM Project
Back for more! Nothing like a good criminal investigation to liven up number sense geometry with a 21st Century Math Project! I’m happy to announce that my most popular project is getting a sequel! The CSI Algebra eBook will soon be joined by CSI Geometry. (And the 21st Century Math Project Groupies go “whoooaaa”. *Wave their hands […]
The Underground — International STEM Project
Mind the Gap. Mind it Well. Expand your student’s international education with an exploration of the London Underground in this 21st Century Math Project. Through building skills of estimation, measurement, and use of scale, students will conclude their learning with an estimation of London’s Circle Line. This is a hands-on STEM Project for hands-on learners and […]
Solar Oven — International STEM Project
Lunch the 21st Century Math Project way If you are trying to integrate an international flair into your science and math curriculum, this 21st Century Math Project is a great place to start. Students will design, build, test, and present a solar oven design with the objective of heating a hot dog the hottest. This […]
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 […]
