Indiana As a middle school math teacher, I believe my job goes beyond teaching the mathematics skills and concepts that will prepare my students for the next math class. Ultimately, I hope my students will use the math they learn in my class to better understand the world in which they live and work. I designed the following open-ended projects to help attain this goal. In each of them, students need to use mathematics, technology, and critical thinking in real-world situations to analyze data and make decisions. Students must have some basic spreadsheet skills and know how to navigate the World Wide Web to complete these projects.
Some projects require local or toll-free telephone research.
I often expand the technology requirements of these projects by sending the assignments to the students in email messages. An evaluation sheet for project 1 is included below. Comes the Revolution. Skeptical Inquirer 29-31, 59. Revitalizing and Refocusing Our Efforts.