Lesson Plans in Mathematics
Linda Lightfoot
EDT
548
9/25/02
Title: Modeling a Ferris Wheel Using Transformations and Animation
Link: http://mathforum.org/dynamic/jrk/ferris_dir/
Description: This lesson allows the student to explore transformations under the real-world format of a Ferris wheel utilizing Geometer’s Sketchpad.
Grade Level: High School Geometry
Constructivism Not With Good
Concepts Really Adjustments Use Outstanding
Uses Prior Knowledge
To Make Connections X
Higher Level Thinking X
Skills
Uses Technology X
Active Learning X
Uses Process Skills X
Reason: This lesson plan takes a tricky math concept and makes it understandable and useable with technology. Transformations are in our state standards. Geometer’s Sketchpad is fun and it’s nice to find a lesson plan already created for it. Finally, you have to love a lesson plan that uses the term “blob” throughout.
Title: Math Club Candy Sale
Link: http://www.utc.edu/~tpa/mcallister/students/su98brenda.html#one
Description: This lesson allows the student to work their way through a statistics lesson utilizing Microsoft Excel.
Grade Level: High School Algebra
Constructivism Not With Good
Concepts Really Adjustments Use Outstanding
Uses Prior Knowledge
To Make Connections X
Higher Level Thinking X
Skills
Uses Technology X
Active Learning X
Uses Process Skills X
Reason: This lesson plan takes a reasonably easy math concept and makes it interesting with technology. The statistics concepts that are investigated are very important and are in our state standards. The proper use of Microsoft Excel is also important.
Title: Three Dimensional Sketching
Link: http://www.wpunj.edu/icip/itm/Lessonpl/sketch/Paxton/threed.htm
Description: This lesson allows the student to become familiar with the differences between perspective drawing and 3-D drawing.
Grade Level: High School Geometry
Constructivism Not With Good
Concepts Really Adjustments Use Outstanding
Uses Prior Knowledge
To Make Connections X
Higher Level Thinking X
Skills
Uses Technology X
Active Learning X
Uses Process Skills X
Reason: This lesson plan puts drawing back into the high school Geometry curriculum and utilizes technology. This particular activity probably isn’t in our state standards. Geometer’s Sketchpad is fun and it’s nice to find a lesson plan already created for it.
Title: Play Ball!
Link: http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans/baseball/baseball.htm
Description: This lesson answers the question: How do statistical comparisons inform the game of baseball?
Grade Level: High School Algebra
Constructivism Not With Good
Concepts Really Adjustments Use Outstanding
Uses Prior Knowledge
To Make Connections X
Higher Level Thinking X
Skills
Uses Technology X
Active Learning X
Uses Process Skills X
Reason: This lesson plan puts baseball into mathematics and puts mathematics into baseball. There are a lot of good statistics in this lesson, which are in the AZ standards.
Title: Table It or Spread It
Link: http://www.successlink.org/great/g791.html
Description: This lesson allows the student to present information in both table format and spreadsheet format.
Grade Level: High School Geometry
Constructivism Not With Good
Concepts Really Adjustments Use Outstanding
Uses Prior Knowledge
To Make Connections X
Higher Level Thinking X
Skills
Uses Technology X
Active Learning X
Uses Process Skills X
Reason: This lesson plan draws from real world situations. The student presents the information using Microsoft Word Table Function and Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.