Madre's Math

This is a project that I created as an extra-credit assignment but could be used as an introduction project at the beginning of the year to get students to investigate how math is used in the real world. Students interview a family member or friend who is in the work field. They find out their occupation, their education, and how they use math on their job. It consists of a report and poster assignments.

This is a table of exponents for numbers 1 - 15, to powers up to 7. It can be used as a quick reference guide when teaching simplifying roots. It can serve as a study guide if students are required to memorize square roots & cube roots.

This is a project to be used with Geometer's Sketchpad. Students create polygons within circles, similar to the method used by Archimedes. Students will calculate the ratio of the perimeter of the polygon to the diameter of the circle. In each step the number of sides of the polygon increase. Thus, the polygon gets closer to appearing to be a circle. As students calculate the ratio of the perimeter to the radius, the value gets closer to the value of Pi.