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Description: Students will pick their favorite delicious combinations of food and compare prices of competing brands to find the better buys. Common Core Standards: 7.RP.1, 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3 Student Learning Goals: (1) Students will be able to find

Subjects:

Math, Applied Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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CCSS:

6.RP.A.2, 6.RP.A.3, 7.RP.A.1

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Inquiry Sampling Part 1

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Description: Students will collect data from their classmates, graph it and then decide if the data from their sample represents a larger population. Common Core Standard: 7.SP.1 (and others) Materials: None Student Learning Goals: (1) Students

Subjects:

Applied Math, Other (Math), Statistics

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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CCSS:

7.SP.A.1

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Bake Sale Business

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Students will work towards a goal of raising money through a bake sale. Using equations and inequalities students will determine the costs, set pricing, and create a monetary goal. Includes lesson plan and student guide. Created for CCS 6.EE.5,

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

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CCSS:

6.EE.B.5, 6.EE.B.6, 6.EE.B.7, 6.EE.B.8

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Shopping Stacked Discounts

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Description: Students will fake shop and then discover if there is really a difference between saving one large discount or two discounts in a row. Is 25% off a 25% discounted price the same things as 50% off? Common Core Standard: 7.RP.3

Subjects:

Math, Applied Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.EE.B.3, 7.RP.A.3

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Discovering Pi

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Description: Students discover where pi comes from by measuring the circular features of everyday objects. Common Core Standard: 7.G.4 (and others) Materials: Ruler that can measure in millimeters, circular objects Student Learning Goals: (1)

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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CCSS:

7.G.B.4

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Correlating Reaction Time

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Students will collect bivariate data by doing an experiment in class and then see if they can find any correlation in the data. If there is not correlation in the data, then students will collect another set of data that does show correlation and

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

8.SP.A.1, 8.SP.A.2, 8.SP.A.3

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Real-Life Math Volume 2

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The quickest way to get your students engaged in math in a deep and meaningful way is to use authentic instruction that relates math to the real world. Preferably the real world math should involve real world interests that students actually care

Subjects:

Math, Algebra, Order of Operations

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Boys vs. Girls

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Description: Students collect data and compare the differences between boys and girls to gain new insights. A mathematically tame battle of the sexes. Common Core Standard: 7.SP.4 (and others) Materials: Measuring device (optional) Student

Subjects:

Other (Math), Statistics

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.SP.B.4

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Percentage Change Of Chewing Gum

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Description: Students will chew some gum and compare the bubble blowing ability of different gums. Students will then make an advertisement touting the mathematically superior bubble blowing gum. Common Core Standard: 7.RP.3 (and more) Materials:

Subjects:

Math, Applied Math, Other (Math)

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.RP.A.3

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Geometry Everywhere

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Description: Students will observe what 3-Dimensional shapes make up the world around them - they will surprised at what they find! They will then make the shapes and discover the cross sections inside. Common Core Standard: 7.G.3 (and

Subjects:

Applied Math, Geometry, Other (Math)

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

7.G.A.3

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Inquiry Sampling Part 2

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Description: Students collect data once again, but this time they are collecting multiple samples of the same population, comparing them and interpreting the results. Common Core Standard: 7.SP.2 (and others) Materials: None Student Learning

Subjects:

Applied Math, Other (Math), Statistics

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

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We Built This City

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Students will design a city layout on their graph paper. They will also be responsible for giving a “tour” of their city. Through these two activities, students will work on locating and reading coordinate pairs, as well as determining the distance

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.C.8

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Positive and Negatives of Bungee Jumping

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Students will simulate bungee jumping with a rubber band and washer to look at the positive and negative direction the rubber will spring. The hands-on and visual aspects of the lesson allow students to see the relationship of integers to 0. Student

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.C.5, 6.NS.C.6, 6.NS.C.6a, 6.NS.C.6b, 6.NS.C.6c, 6.NS.C.7, 6.NS.C.7a, 6.NS.C.7b, 6.NS.C.7c, 6.NS.C.7d

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Clothing Design & Pricing

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The students are fashion designers with business sense who will be using an equation to figure out how they will price their clothing items. Student Guide and Lesson Plan Included.

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

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The Moon Is How Far Away?

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In order to better grasp how big a great distance is, students will calculate how many of a personal object it takes to go the same distance using scientific notation. Lesson Plan and Student Guide included.

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

8.EE.A.3, 8.EE.A.4

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Symmetrical Beauty

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Students will measure a celebrity’s face to determine how symmetrical their face is and see how that relate’s to their beauty. Student Guide and Lesson Plan are included.

Subjects:

Math, Arts

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

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Big Square Deal

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When ordering a pizza that claims to be a “Big Square Deal” from a national chain, a student suggests that it can’t really be a square if it only has 16 pieces. Students will explore if this is true and what doors it opens into understanding and

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

8.NS.A.1, 8.NS.A.2

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The Big Screen

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When creating a home theater, how big of a screen should you get for a wall? When looking at a 60” T.V. how much room will it actually take up on the wall? Using the pythagorean theorem, students will learn more about how screen size relates to the

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

8.G.B.6, 8.G.B.7, 8.G.B.8

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What Drives You?

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Students will determine how many miles their future vehicle will accrue and analyze the cost of certain cars based on initial cost and gas mileage. Using decimal operations, students will gain some understanding into what it costs to drive certain

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.B.3

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Vacation Get Away

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Students will use a website to find a 1-week vacation rental. Their task is to take the rental price and divide it by varying amounts of friends (working on dividing from 2 through 15), ultimately deciding how many people to bring on their trip. The

Subjects:

Math

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.NS.B.2

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

8 years Teacher Middle Grades Math Speaking At Multiple Conferences About Real-LIfe Based Instruction

MY TEACHING STYLE

I use a variety of styles in my room from direct instruction, groupings, inquiry based learning, and more - but the key is I always try to incorporate real-life math and try to show my students where math is in their real world.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Spoken at Ohio Council of Teaching Math conference to a standing room only room. Spoken at Battelle's Great Teachers Make Great Schools Conference Spoken at Association for Middle Level Education National Conference.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Ma.Ed. in Instructional Technology completed in 2010 Ba.Ed. in Mathematics Instruction for grades 4-9 completed in 2006

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I love: Jesus, my wife, sons and daughter, teaching, creating, technology, web design, and all apple products.

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Math, Algebra, Applied Math, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Other (Math), Arts & Music, Statistics

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