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Weight Watcher!
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Clarke, Doug – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1990
The author, using a weight machine in an airport lounge, varies the machine's input parameters of height and gender to generate data sets of ideal weight. These data are later used at in-service workshops and in both primary and secondary classrooms to explore patterns and make predictions. (JJK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Mathematics Education
The A-Maizing Corn Lab: A Geneticist's Biography Leads a Mathematics Exploration
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Cwikla, Julie; Patterson, Marcelle Dessommes – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2006
This article describes an innovative lesson that uses the biography "Barbara McClintock: Alone in her Field" (Heiligman, 1994) to integrate genetics, literature, and mathematics as a context for students to investigate patterns on Indian corn. This two-day lesson requires students to estimate, collect data, identify and describe patterns,…
Descriptors: Probability, Graphs, Genetics, Mathematics Instruction
Kindergarten Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1991
The "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" (1989) provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. The document not only addresses what mathematics students should…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Fourth-Grade Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1992
The "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" (1989) provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. The document not only addresses what mathematics students should…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Fifth-Grade Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1992
The "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" (1989) provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. The document not only addresses what mathematics students should…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Third Grade Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1992
The "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" (1989) provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. The document not only addresses what mathematics students should…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
First-Grade Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1991
The "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" (1989) provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. The document not only addresses what mathematics students should…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Second-Grade Book. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series, Grades K-6.
Burton, Grace; And Others – 1992
The 1989 document, "Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics," provides a vision and a framework for revising and strengthening the K-12 mathematics curriculum in North American schools and for evaluating both the mathematics curriculum and students' progress. This book, one in a series designed to interpret and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Enrichment, Data Collection, Discovery Learning