Higher Level Math
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Enrichment Resources for Math
When I work with advanced or talented and gifted students, I recommend that enrichment be used to “go wide, not deep.” The point is not to simply move the students vertically, but challenge them to go deeper with current content or use critical thinking activities. Here is an online resource of problems from the Paul Erdős International…
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Reading Scatterplots with Ford Mustangs
One step in reading and analyzing scatterplots is simply identifying what the dots on the graph represent. Students who do not understand the meaning of the points, including the position, will struggle to interpret the graph. This post outlines a Jamboard activity to support interpretation of the points. Overview I present the scatterplot of used…
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Summer Math Sessions to Prepare for the Next School Year
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Velocity, Acceleration, Speeding Up and Slowing Down
DISCLAIMER: This is a very mathy, math geek post but it also has value in demonstrating instructional strategies and multiple representations. We all understand speed intuitively. Velocity is speed with a direction. Negative in this case does not indicate a lower value but simply which way an object is traveling. Both cars below are traveling…
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Trig Fingers
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Application for Trigonometry
Making math meaningful and maybe interesting is a challenge. The photo above refers to a real life application for triangles and trigonometry (see photo below) that is found in a news story about Russian jets and a US destroyer. The jet was flying at an altitude of 100 yards and within 200 yards of the…