Math Rigor

Students learn about a particular Native American group from California, changes in local populations, and geography. Content covers social studies, ELA, and math - estimating populations, distances, and trade. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexity icons are identified.

Students will be introduced to musical notation: staff, time signatures, and note/rest duration. Music is used to convey whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc. and related to equations with fractions. If time permits, students can compose their own "symmetric song" . Depth and Complexity icons: Language of the Disciplines, Patterns, Rules, Across Disciplines

A classroom activity where student build their own demand and supply curves based on what they are willing to pay (or be paid) for a clean room. Students must reason quantitatively and use units common in economics to solve problems in market equilibrium. Algebra- linear equations, systems of equations, and functions.

The Convicted with Statistics project applies joint probability (conditional and unconditional). Students explore dependent and independent events, as well as questionable interpretations of statistics which could incite convictions in court. Students discuss the failings of expert witnesses for two separate court cases in which statistics nailed down a conviction. The concept of prosecutor's fallacy is introduced. A short introduction to DNA profiles, chromosomes, genotypes, Punnett squares, a

Students will be introduced to ideas such as density, Charles's Law, Boyle's Law, and buoyancy. They will model with mathematics, using linear equations, ratios and rates. The students will apply the ideas and physical properties to scuba diving and transfer the knowledge to explain why objects float in air. Ultimately, students will become "teachers" of the subject and will work together to create a model and poster session.

Students test their engineering and design skills and show school pride while learning about American history and symbolism. Activities include designing a historical American flags (+ how many ways are there to draw 20 stars?), learning about the Washington Monument (+ obelisk, circular symmetry of the flags), engineering loads, and logbooks.The project culminates with students having built an object which represents the community or school, given constraints. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexi

Students apply math as well as reading and writing anchor standards while learning about water distribution, usage, and conservation in California. Math topics include advanced arithmetic, number sense, rates and proportions, measurement, and algebra. ELA topics include research in addition to writing informative and argumentative essays. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexity icons are identified.

Students practice writing roman numerals and create a multiplication table.

See how interest can be modeled linearly or exponentially and discover the similarities between those functions and arithmetic and geometric sequences. Calculate mortgage payments and car payments and compare them to leasing. Argue, using mathematics, for the better deal.

Students learnt about Pascal's Triangle and create a fraction triangle. The activity culminates with students drawing representation of the triangle depicting that each row adds to one.

Students must make a mark-up of a hero for a game. They must solve systems of equations to determine where to drop bombs on the monsters.

Students model precipitation as a function of altitude in the California Sierras. Algebra- linear models.

Students collect data and perform a matched pairs t-test

Classroom activities which help students learn about memory and descriptive statistics.

An activity which requires students to examine how to measure if data fit a given line; an introduction to r-squared.