Jean's MATH

Have students discover exponential growth in this very fun lesson about Ally's allowance! Ally asks her father for a special allowance: 1 penny on April 1st, then 2 pennies, 4 pennies, 8 pennies and so forth and so on for all the consecutive days during the month of April. This is a tried and true math lesson and lab that I have created and used for many years with my 7th and 8th grade classes. Students get a "kick" out of learning about the power of exponential growth and wish that they too, h

Most people can identify numbers in the millions, billions and trillions, but few people actually know the names for some really big numbers after that! This is a tried and true math lesson and lab that I have created and used for many years with my 7th and 8th grade classes. Students get a "kick" out of learning about really big numbers that they were never able to identify before now. They walk away feeling empowered and ready to share their knowledge with others! In the MATH LESSON, student

Most people have heard of the wind chill factor but few people know that there is an actual formula used to calculate it! This is a tried and true math lesson and lab that I have created and used for many years with my 7th and 8th grade classes. Students get a "kick" out of learning about the actual formula used by the National Weather Service to calculate the wind chill factor. They learn some history about the wind chill factor, analyze the formula used, gain an understanding of how wind spe