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5.Activity: Math In the News Title: Math in the News Start Date: February1 End Date: Open throughout duration of the project. Summary: Students review headlines for a week, looking for math in the news. When they find a headline that has some correlation to math, they are to analyze it: Could it be an actual amount, or is it an estimate? What "kind of math" is it?-For example: ratio, percent, area, volume, length, weight, rank, cardinal number-indicating quantity, ordinal number-position in a series. They would then send something like this to KIDPROJ: Headline: "Party peace No. 1 in GOP chief's eye" Date: August 1, 1997 Newspaper: Austin American Statesman Estimate or actual: actual Purpose: rank Restate it without numbers: Party peace main focus of GOP chief. Crenshaw Elementary Chesterfield County, Virginia Debbie Crain Sellman School Casis School Austin, Texas This page is posted by Richard Turnbull, and was last updated on Jan. 3,1998. Send comments to rturnbul@nwrain.com |Home | Register | Information Contact: Patti Weeg, Title 1 Computer Teacher, Delmar El. School, Delmar, Maryland, USA. Home Page: http://www.globalclassroom.org/ KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Grant Dougall, Educational Consultant: Technologies, Saskatoon Board of Education, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Web Site: http://198.169.140.21/    Go to the KIDLINK Home Page           Return to KIDPROJ Projects Page KIDS-98, the KIDLINK name and associated logo are service marks of the KIDLINK Society.