Math Around Us

This Kidproj project ended in 1998.

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.

News from Mrs. Bernstein's G/T Math Class from Helena Flats School in Kalispell, MT.

This page is posted by Mickie Flores-Ward, and was last updated on August 28,1998.
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