NCTM Standards Links Bon Voyage - Evan Glazer Students use current currency exchange information to plan a trip, learning foreign currency exchange. This lesson teaches elementary functions in a practical and current way. Using information from the graph of the data and the equations of the function, students will answer questions about housing prices. Over a period of one week, one month, and one school year, traffic patterns will be studied at various times of the day. At the completion of this study students will write a report and send their results via email to the Greater Houston Transportation and Emergency Management Center.
Students also have an opportunity to volunteer to collect travel data on major Houston freeways.
This lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of functions composed of two operations, with specific attention to linear functions and their representations as rules and data tables, including the mathematical notions of independent and dependent variables. An interactive lesson including a presentation of the problem with manipulatives and also using a spreadsheet in Claris Works. The culminating and most important part of the lesson is to process the problem and work with algebraic notation. An interactive lesson including a presentation of the problem kinesthetically, with small manipulatives and interactively using a JAVA applet on the Internet. The culminating and most important part of the lesson is to process the problem and work with algebraic notation.