Pooling Around

Design your dream home, complete with landscaped yard and pool! Geometers are sure to enjoy this fun lesson plan that focuses on applying the distance formula and the Pythagorean Theorem in a real-world scenario. The activity includes...

Especially right before summer, kids may be thinking about swimming pools! Take advantage of this thought and get them calculating surface area of this 3-D figure as if they were going to repaint a pool. 

Cooperative algebra learners swim from the opening pool problem through inequality-infested waters and into life-altering decisions all within one class period. Modeling a pool scenario with an inequality in one variable opens this...

Design a backyard pool for summer fun! Given coordinates that determine one side of a swimming pool, geometers must find the best location for coordinates that determine the opposite side of the pool so that it meets certain...

An engaging, and not to mention attractive, lesson plan has prealgebra and beginning algebra scholars examining linear relationships. They consider the rising water level as a swimming pool is being filled. They do so by charting and...

Pupils design a fence for a backyard pool. Scholars develop a fence design based on given constraints, determine the amount of material they need, and calculate the cost of the project. 

What are some basic features of functions? By looking at functions in graphs, tables, and equations, pupils compare them and find similarities and differences in general features. They use attributes such as intervals of...

The language and features of functions get careful treatment in a complex but doable lesson. Learners get a lot of practice really figuring out what a graph means in context, and also identifying key features of graphs. Key ideas like...

Constructionists calculate perimeter and area of various rectangles. They draw a rectangle representing a swimming pool on grid paper, calculate the area of the swimming pool and the sidewalk around the pool, and identify patterns in the...

How many noodles long is your classroom? Find out when engineers of all ages explore measurement through the use of pool noodles. With the noodles pre-cut to certain metric lengths, the activities could be used to introduce the metric...