Activiites for Learning Mathematics

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The following activities are designed to

incorporate physical activity such as collecting data or making measurments

require the application of math notation and math calculations

demonstrate a math concept or principle

Activities skills documents table
ma005 Activities	Activity Name	Brief Description	Supported skills and standards	Supporting documents
1	Pace length	Measure your average pace length and use it to measure the length of a hallway	Average, integers	average_pace_length.docx
2	People are Proportional	Measure students' height, foot length, cubit, ulna and wingspan and calculate ratios to demonstrate proportionality and variation		Assigment24_ratio_height_foot_class_list.docx ratio_ergonomic_people.htm
3	Map upstairs and downstairs hallway	Make a properly scaled map of the upstairs hallway and the downstairs hallway in the math science complex	Scaling in 2 dimensions
4	Popularity of Letters	Make a frequency histogram of the letters in students' first and last names		frequency_histogram_letters.docx, letter_distributions_v4.xlsx, letter_distributions_v2.xls
5	Write checks	Write (voided) checks exactly as you would in your life	Converting words to numbers
6	Map steps	Make a properly scaled map of the steps all the stairwells of the math science complex	Slope	rise_run_stairs.xlsx
7	Weights of football players by position	Make and compare box plots of the weights of football players in the National Football League	Median, mean, mode, range	weight_fb.xlsx
8	Nutritional Facts	Use nutritional facts of Burger King, MacDonald’s and Subway to compute intake of nutritional components with daily recommended values	Percents, relative difference,	nutritional_fact_worksheet.docx nutrition_facts.xlsx bk_nutrition_facts.docx
9	Map geometric figures in the courtyard	Pace a right triangle, rectangle, square and circle in the courtyard and confirm important properties of the figures	Area, perimeter, Pythagorean formula	paces_courtyard.xlsx
10	Remote Piloted Aircraft	Make appropriate graphs and calculations of the usage and failure rates of RPAs and UAVs found in the USAF RPA/UAV Strategic Vision	Scatter plots, report reading, drawing conclusions, critical thinking	rq1_mq1_hours_slope.xlsx rpa_uav_questions.txt
11	Commute times for U.S.	Mean, median, range, Box Plots and Scatter Plots of commute times for states in the U.S.		box_plots.xlsx
12	Prime numbers 1 to 100	Use multiplication facts to find most but not all composite numbers from 1 to 100	logic, prime or composite numbers	primes_lt_100.htm

Activities skills documents table

ma005 Activities

Activity Name

Brief Description

Supported skills and standards

Supporting documents

Pace length

Measure your average pace length and use it to measure the length of a hallway

Average, integers

average_pace_length.docx

People are Proportional

Measure students' height, foot length, cubit, ulna and wingspan and calculate ratios to demonstrate proportionality and variation

Assigment24_ratio_height_foot_class_list.docx

ratio_ergonomic_people.htm

Map upstairs and downstairs hallway

Make a properly scaled map of the upstairs hallway and the downstairs hallway in the math science complex

Scaling in 2 dimensions

Popularity of Letters

Make a frequency histogram of the letters in students' first and last names

frequency_histogram_letters.docx, letter_distributions_v4.xlsx, letter_distributions_v2.xls

Write checks

Write (voided) checks exactly as you would in your life

Converting words to numbers

Map steps

Make a properly scaled map of the steps all the stairwells of the math science complex

Slope

rise_run_stairs.xlsx

Weights of football players by position

Make and compare box plots of the weights of football players in the National Football League

Median, mean, mode, range

weight_fb.xlsx

Nutritional Facts

Use nutritional facts of Burger King, MacDonald’s and Subway to compute intake of nutritional components with daily recommended values

Percents, relative difference,

nutritional_fact_worksheet.docx
nutrition_facts.xlsx
bk_nutrition_facts.docx

Map geometric figures in the courtyard

Pace a right triangle, rectangle, square and circle in the courtyard and confirm important properties of the figures

Area, perimeter, Pythagorean formula

paces_courtyard.xlsx

Remote Piloted Aircraft

Make appropriate graphs and calculations of the usage and failure rates of RPAs and UAVs found in the USAF RPA/UAV Strategic Vision

Scatter plots, report reading, drawing conclusions, critical thinking

rq1_mq1_hours_slope.xlsx
rpa_uav_questions.txt

Commute times for U.S.

Mean, median, range, Box Plots and Scatter Plots of commute times for states in the U.S.

box_plots.xlsx

Prime numbers 1 to 100

Use multiplication facts to find most but not all composite numbers from 1 to 100

logic, prime or composite numbers

primes_lt_100.htm

Activities List

(Incorporate these into the table above)

Mapping the UP, counting, measurements, variation, ratio, rectangle, area, perimeter, cartography, cartesian coordinates, unit conversions, Letter distributions, frequency histograms, scatter plots, correlation, relative frequency, absolute differences vs. relative differences, write checks

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