Best Buy!!!(Unit Cost)

Word Processing/Spreadsheet

Overview

Students will compare prices to determine the best buy. They will collect data from newspaper advertisements and enter the data on a spreadsheet and create a word processing document complete with graphs to support their findings.

Casey At Bat

English and Math (Statistics, spreadsheets and graphs)

Overview:
After reading 'Casey at the Bat' and discussing the sports 'hero' students use the Internet to research real baseball heroes. In groups, students compare individual baseball players' hitting and/or pitching statistics and nominate one baseball hero per group. Students then justify their conclusions by creating spreadsheets and generating graphs of the data. Finally, students individually write a short editorial which incorporates a graph and tells why their player is a hero based on overall achievement as well as statistics

Checking Account

Spreadsheet

Overview:

Students are given a list of items purchased with prices, deposits, and withdrawals in a checking account format. They will create a spreadsheet by entering the information into the appropriate cells and the formula that is necessary for computation.

Happy Birthday Mathematicians & Me Using the Web

Word Processing & Internet Research (Math History & Mathematicians)

Overview

Mathematicians and scientists are people too!!!!! Did you know that Sir Isaac Newton was inspired to study mathematics after a fight with a school bully? Leonhard Euler wrote more mathematics than anyone -- even after he became totally blind!!!! Great mathematical or scientific discoveries were made by real people who experienced the same misunderstandings and frustrations that we all do when learning a new concept. The purpose of this activity is for you to research a person who made a math or science discovery happen.

Investment and Compound Interest

Overview:
Students will create a spreadsheet to match a given sample. This will include adjusting column width and row height, changing alignment, changing size and style of print, changing number format. They will learn the concept of compound interest and write formulas to complete the investment chart. They will create a line graph displaying the results of the chart.

? Measuring Mania

Word Processing/ Spreadsheet (Scatter Plot Activity)

Overview

The students will compile and enter different sets of data on a spreadsheet to be used in constructing scatter plots. The data will be collected by completing different stations set up in the classroom. A word processing document that describes the different correlations found will also be created.

Moving On Up!

Spreadsheet (Statistics/Percents)

Overview

After completing a game-like simulation to determine a career and salary, student groups will collect information and decide what is the 'best' city in which to live. Students will individually choose a 'best' city, support their decision, and create a monthly budget for their 'best' city based on the salary from the simulation.

Newspaper and Graphic Construction

English and Math (graphs and spreadsheets)

Overview :
Students in groups of two will create a newspaper using topics from an assigned chapter. Students will use ClarisWorks word processing, insert graphics, and create graphs using spreadsheets ?

PICASSO (GEOMETRIC DESIGN)

Geosketchpad

Overview :

Students will use the geosketch pad program to come up with a design given certain guidelines.

Researching Issues of Race and Gender

Internet/Spreadsheets

Overview

The class will research statistical information involving racial breakdown of the United States population by gender and ethnicity. These breakdowns could consist of issues such as population changes, number of AIDS cases, death rates and educational levels. This will give students an opportunity to use the Internet to access and analyze current data.

Sports Spreadsheet Activity?

Spreadsheet Activity

Overview

Part of the Fairfax County Numerical Reasoning POS is for the students to be able to create and design a spreadsheet. This lesson will familiarize students with searching for information on the Web. Integrating the data collected from the Web into a spreadsheet adds a sense of interest and ownership to the project. The students are researching a topic they are familiar with and which they like.

Timeline Project

Integers and Literature :Using Timeler 4.0 Software

Overview

As an interdisciplinary project, students will demonstrate their understanding of the placement of integers on a number line. Students will place integers on the timeline corresponding to zero, the date of their birth. Events will relate to significant family and personal events before they were born and during their lives. In addition, students will place the publication or copyright dates of literary selections they have read throughout the year on the timeline.

TV Viewing

Word Processing/Spreadsheet (Statistics/Scatter plots)

Overview

Students will test a hypothesis to see if there is a direct correlation between number of hours of TV viewing and academic grade. They will collect and compile data to enter on a spreadsheet and create a word processing document which will include data and graphs to support their hypothesis.

? Investigate the Rigid Motions of Reflection, Rotation, Translation, and Dilation

Geometer's Sketchpad and a computer

Overview

Students will investigate the rigid motions of reflection, rotation, translation, and dilation.

Spreadsheet Development

Computer with Microsoft Excel

Overview

A walk-through introducing the basics of spreadsheet development using Microsoft Excel.

Famous Mathematician Book

Computer

Overview

The lesson includes research from web sites, copying and pasting graphics and/or text from the Internet to a word processing document and composing a final draft of a booklet.

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Box Plots on the TI-83 Calculator

Computers with Internet access, TI-82 or TI-83 graphing calculators

Overview

The students will research box plots on the Internet and then gather real life statistics. They will analyze the collected statistics by making multiple box plots on the TI-83 calculator and comparing the one variable statistics.

4 Month Budget Spreadsheet

Computer

Overview

Students will create and maintain a spreadsheet budget based on a predetermined salary. They will have an opportunity to make �investments and purchases.�

Data Analysis and Data Explorer

Computer with Data Explorer Software

Overview

Test scores from a recent test have been compiled from 3 classes and the data is given to the students for their analysis. In the computer lab the students will use Data Explorer to input the data and display as 3 stacked box plots. Students will analyze the data and write a paragraph of their analysis.

Linear Progression

(Candy that is about the same size and weight), another type of weight (heavier candy or dimes), two meter sticks or yardsticks per group, small cup (I used the containers that holds a roll of film), wire, masking tape, graph paper, loose-leaf paper (for notes and to record information), straight edge, pencils, graphing calculators, ClarisWorks or Microsoft Word

Overview

Description of Lesson (includes context):
Before conducting this activity, students should have experience creating tables of values and plotting points on a coordinate plane. This lesson is a concrete example of linear progression. The abstract ideas of slope and intercepts are represented in this activity as the constant weights (slope) and the length of the spring with no weights (y-intercept). Students will have the opportunity to create tables of values and graph lines using paper and pencil and the graphing calculator. Students will use either ClarisWorks or Microsoft Word to answer questions focusing on the effects of slope and intercepts on the graph of a line.