Mathematicians Lesson Plans

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7th Grade
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Students engage in a series of activities designed to be a fun week enabling students to experience life in Germany. The activities are aligned with state objectives and could be applied to any country of interest to Students.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students investigate the role of mathematics in their everyday lives. They discover, through reading a Times article and through analyzing a specific example of art, that mathematics exists on a deeper 'metaphoric' level in art.

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9th - 12th Grade
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Students discuss the Fibonacci sequence and how it was discovered by trying to determine the sequence on their own based on the same assumptions Leonardo Fibonacci used. Working as a class they discuss the rule that is being follow to get from one number to the next before dividing into groups to look for Fibonacci numbers in pictures of nature.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students use the Archimedes method to demonstrate scientific principles behind observations.

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5th Grade
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Students create data graphs using Microsoft Excel.  In this data collection lesson, students create and conduct a survey, then use Excel to organize and graph their data.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students assess the educational and social issues of boys and girls in school as a springboard to interviewing women in the fields of science, in order to study of their early interests and experiences in these typically male-dominated fields.

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6th Grade
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Students use a variety of resources to research the Middle Ages and Renaissance over a nine-week period. Working in cooperative teams, they become experts on specific topics. Students hold a Renaissance Faire and role-play as characters from that time period.

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6th Grade
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Students explore the connection between the circumference and diameter of circles. They listen to the story "Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi" and solve the riddle and to save Sir Cumference from the knights.

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6th - 12th Grade
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Students research great thinkers and accomplishments of Islam. They watch and discuss a PBS video, "Islam: Empire of Faith," conduct Internet research, and create a fact cube that presents their findings.

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8th Grade
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Students explore and demonstrate an understanding of the factors that contribute to the efficient operation of mechanisms and simple machines. They design and make a mechanical toy device that moves a given object a specified vertical and horizontal distance, and investigate the efficiency of the mechanical device.