1 Latisha Develops an Investment Plan Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students are introduced to integer programming through practical problems in which they formulate decisions using 0-1 variables, by entering these integer variables into a decision matrix in a spreadsheet and manipulating the spreadsheet to evaluate alternative decision combinations. Activity sheets guide students step by step through the basic process.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Finance Projects: Standards First 2 Mathematics and Football: Get the Picture--Get the Story Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–5 Professional Commentary: In this second of five lessons related to football, students look at four pictures and make up one or more story problems to go with each picture. Classmates share and compare the problems they have made up.... 3 The Games Robots Play: Developing Applications to Enable Robots to Play Tic-Tac-Toe Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Students learn how robots are programmed to play games. They then construct robot applications (basic computer codes) for playing tic-tac-toe using if-then logic sequences to reflect winning strategies.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Information Technology, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing Projects: Standards First 4 Hooked on Problem Solving Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Students use each of the digits 1–9 exactly once to form addition problems consisting of two three-digit addends and a three-digit sum and look for patterns in the solutions. Guiding questions, summary questions, assessment tasks, and extensions are included.... 5 What If We Changed the Book? Problem-Posing with Sixteen Cows Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics, English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This activity demonstrates the strategy of problem posing (Brown & Walter, 1983/2005). A piece of math-related children’s literature, Sixteen Cows (Wheeler, 2002), is used as the springboard for this problem-posing activity.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson has an introductory activity that uses bottles of various shapes to help students understand rate of change. The lesson then develops the concept of the average rate of change between two points on a curve.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore relationships between x-intercepts, factors, and roots of polynomial functions using the graphing calculator. Students also investigate rational functions, identifying the roots and the asymptotes as well as holes (discontinuities) in the graphs.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This lesson presents a classic game-show scenario: You pick one of three doors in hopes of winning a prize. The host opens one of the two remaining doors which reveals no prize, then asks if you want to stick with your original choice or switch to the other unopened door.... 9 Explorations with Chance Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–10 Professional Commentary: This site describes three creative games that give students an opportunity to apply concepts related to probability. Students are asked to determine whether the games are fair, and if unfair, how they might be changed.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students solve two linear programming problems. The first one, Researching Research Papers, involves three variables; the second, The Busing Problem, involves four variables.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First |