The Standards-Based Classroom

In this open-ended math project, students choose a combo meal from a fast food place and use math skills to show whether ordering a combo saves money. Students learn more about what the distributive property represents by using visual and algebraic models to represent their group's food order. Students organize their work on Google Slides with directions and templates.

In this interdisciplinary math project, students will consider the ethical implications of keeping animals in captivity. Students will use research skills, geometry skills, design skills, CER writing, and critical thinking to defend a claim about animals in captivity. This open-ended project allows students to reflect on and refine their own opinions while applying area/volume formulas, science connections about the needs of living animals, and CER writing. This project is scaffolded through

This project allows students to practice and apply ratio concepts. Students work on Google Slides with embedded directions and project templates. Parts 1 and 2 can be used together or individually: Part 1: Students use sandwiches to practice identifying ratios in real life and writing ratio statements.Part 2: Students choose a recipe and apply ratio reasoning using unit rates and percents. Students make a change to *improve* the recipe and describe their change using ratio reasoning.Part 3: (O