Math Possibilities

I use this as I teach my students to solve word problems. Too often our students are told to read a word problem until they understand it, but if they do not know what the word problem is saying that strategy will not work. Since our school does a lot of dissecting/annotating/close reading of text I wanted to incorporate that same thought into math.

There are five real life problems that get students thinking about money, mileage, and life. Students are given the problem and they need to come up with extra questions to solve to find a solution.

Have you ever thought about building your own angry bird scene and then trying to destroy it. In this project there is a video to introduce architect and the use of scale drawings. Then the students get to create their own design for an angry bird scene and build it. Lastly, they will write a paragraph stating at least 3 reasons why scale drawings are of importance to carpenters and architects.

Students are starting up their own restaurant based around pancakes. The students will create their budget, their restaurant layout, the recipe and increased recipe for a class that is coming to eat (avg 30 students), they need to market and advertise, and lastly create an explanation of starting a business.

Students experience problems that they may encounter in life. Which allows them to use their math and problem solving skills if any of these problems happen to them at home.

This an application problem for math where students use area and surface area to see how to not waste wrapping paper to help save them money. I also have students try out the diagonal wrapping theory and see if they can come up with a different method or if diagonal is really the best.

Students research the different ways to see their favorite channels and how much it would cost them over a two year period, in order to determine which is the cheapest option for them to save the most money!

There are 16 task cards all revolved around work with fraction including plotting on number lines, comparing, ordering, adding, subtracting, defining, and explaining.

Students will have to determine the dinner party for a Thanksgiving dinner. They need to find the recipes and the number of ingredients, all while trying to stay within a 75 dollar budget. Then they need to find the calories consumed during the meal and find ways to burn it off.

This is to help students solve problems by first finding possible facts in the problem. From those facts students can then determine the problem they need to solve.

These can be used for math journals or task cards. These will get students to start thinking of why an answer is true.

This activity is like the show flea market flip. it will teach students about making profits and percent markup.

Students will need to apply the rules of integers in order to evaluate the total yardage on a Green Bay scoring drive. Then find the average yardage per play. Lastly, write why a coach would want to know how many yards were achieved on each play.

Students create a calendar in which to find out the number day it is such as September 19th the equation would have to have x equal to 19 when you solve!

Students create a scale drawing of what they think school would be like in 2050, then create the model to scale. Lastly, they need to keep a budget of what will be in the classroom.

Students will research the nfl draft to find the averages of different assessments the draftees go through.

Students will go through several steps using recipes to see how fractions are used daily in a cook/caterers life!

Students use dice and coins to explore multiplying with fractions in order to create a conjecture about what they observed during this activity.