Jean's MATH

Have students discover, for themselves, both the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio in this very fun lesson about patterns! 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 use a fancy formula derived by mathematician Jacques Philippe Marie Binet that will figure out any number in the Fibonacci sequence. And, they find out more about the special number phi. In the MATH LESSON, students will ... evaluate an

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 have heard of professional football and the NFL but few people know that there is an actual formula used to calculate ratings for the NFL quarterbacks! 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 NFL to calculate passer ratings for the quarterbacks. They learn some history about when the rating of quarterbacks first started, ana

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