Pimp My Math
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Kerry Cue is a humorist, mathematician, journalist and author. She studied Science/Engineering at Melbourne University, taught math for 10 diabolical years then turned her hand to writing for newspapers, TV and radio. She’s written 20 humorous books and now she is the popular maths blogger, Mathspig, with over 900,000 hits.
https://mathspig.wordpress.com/
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Hot Heels 3 UNIT RATES
Faster than a speeding chicken!
Year 6, 7 and 8 students complete some warm-up exercises involving real people and real problems such as BPM (beats per minute) and FPM (Acrobatic flips per minute)and then use this math to test an Urban Myth about high heel shoes.
The lessons ends with an hysterically funny exercise.
6th - 8th
Arithmetic, Measurement, Other (Math)
CCSS
7.EE.B.3
, 6.RP.A.1
, 6.RP.A.2
+3
Hot Heels 4 Mean, mode and coffee
Oops! I got the wobblies!
Year 6,7 and 8 students complete some warm-up exercises calculating mean, median and mode for real results of a real watermelon seed spitting competition with real people. They then use this math to test an Urban Myth about walking with coffee .
The teacher rules here. Wait until the end. You should be the walking with coffee STAR. Of course, students use water.
6th - 8th
Arithmetic, Other (Math)
CCSS
6.SP.A.1
, 6.SP.A.2
, 6.SP.A.3
+7
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Kerry Cue is a humorist, mathematician, journalist and author. She studied Science/Engineering at Melbourne University, taught math for 10 diabolical years then turned her hand to writing for newspapers, TV and radio. She’s written 20 humorous books and now she is the popular maths blogger, Mathspig, with over 900,000 hits.
https://mathspig.wordpress.com/
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After studying math at university for 5 years, then teaching for 10 years, I made a big discovery. I never wanted to know the answer to any problem. I simply wanted to get the answer right and move on.
I taught in some tough high schools. On my first day at one school a student threw a bike off a roof. Now I understand their rage. Only a small % of students love math for the challenge. It's like Latin, a dead language, to the rest. So I started my math blog MATHSPIG to show teachers and principals that math could be REAL, RELEVANT and FUN.
I concentrate on the TOUGH YEARS: Middle School.
Math teachers don't have time to be creative. So I'm producing the WORKSHEETS that I would have wanted for my challenging classes. So here are the worksheets that motivate students, even difficult students, to DO THE MATH.
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