Finally. Math class is awesome.
Real-world lessons from Mathalicious help middle and high school teachers address the Common Core Standards while challenging their students to think critically about the world.
Finally. Math class is awesome.
Real-world lessons from Mathalicious help middle and high school teachers address the Common Core Standards while challenging their students to think critically about the world.
In this lesson students apply geometric transformations to build (and play) their own video games.
Students create exponential models to predict the speed of video game processors over time, compare their predictions to observed speeds, and consider the consequences as digital simulations become increasingly lifelike.
In this lesson, students use quadratic functions to explore the mathematics of how objects fall.
In this lesson, students use exponential growth and logarithms to model how a virus spreads through a population and evaluate how various factors influence the speed and scope of an outbreak.
In this lesson, students write, solve, and graph systems of linear equations to determine how long it takes to pay off a ticket and debate the fairest ways for cities to raise revenues without harming their poorest residents.
In this lesson, students use percents and expected value to understand how health insurance works
In this lesson, students build scale models of the White House, compare scaling in one vs. two vs. three dimensions and design their ideal version of the president’s house.
In this lesson students use proportions to determine what would happen if Olympic races were organized differently.
In this lesson, students will compute the probabilities of a win, loss, or tie for Memphis.
In this lesson, students evaluate expressions with variables to compare the reading levels of famous speeches in American history and debate the virtues of complexity vs. popularity.
In this lesson, students write linear equations to model the homeless populations in New York City and Los Angeles and discuss what they can do to aid people experiencing homelessness in their communities.
In this lesson, students use mean, median, and mode to analyze the trustworthiness of 5-star ratings system and suggest ways to make them more reliable.
In this lesson, students operate with decimals to calculate the total costs to produce different U.S. coins.
In this lesson, students use positive integers, negative integers, and absolute value to describe the emotions of a day and discuss the important role that different emotions play in our lives.
In this lesson, students add and subtract positive and negative numbers to explore two popular types of bet: the over-under and the spread.
Students decompose irregular polygons into triangles and rectangles, find their areas to estimate the fraction of a scene that’s advertising, and discuss the pros and cons of living in an ad-free world.
In this lesson, students use unit rates to compare how much different professions make per year/day/hour and discuss ways to possibly equate compensation with social contribution.
What’s the fairest way to tip at a restaurant?
In this lesson, students use positive and negative integers to compare recorded monthly temperatures to their long-term averages and consider actions they can take to take care of the planet.
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