Mathy Minds

Bring real-world math into your classroom with this engaging Vitruvian Man Investigation! In this hands-on activity, students test Leonardo da Vinci’s famous claim about human body proportions by collecting real data, creating scatterplots, and analyzing relationships using evidence. What Students Will Do 📏 Collect real class data (height & arm span) 🔍 Test a real-world claim 📊 Build a scatterplot from scratch 🧠 Use evidence to prove or disprove What’s Included ✔ Student investigation pa

We all know that building relationships with our students and helping students build relationships with each other, is key in creating a positive learning environment. This packet is designed to help students get to know each other and begin to build those relationships while also using math! Whoot, whoot! This packet contains two brief icebreaker activities, and one longer activity. In the first icebreaker, students must decide what a graph is measuring based off their given group. They may

In this cooperative activity, students exercise their ability to create graphs given verbal descriptions, and explore the relationship between stories, graphs and data tables. This activity includes: *Student friendly goals *Warm-up *Matching Activity *Extension Activity -- Could be used as homework, exit task, or follow-up activity

The goal of this activity is to give meaning to creating equations and expressions by providing students with a real-world challenge that requires students to create equations to solve a problem. This activity requires students to create a business proposal where they must create equations and simplify expressions in order to solve a problem posted by a small business owner. This activity comes with: *Student friendly "I will..." statements *Answer Key *2 extension activities for advanced studen