Lesson Overview: Through this beginning-of-the-year assignment, each student writes a resume to introduce themselves to their teacher. The resume includes information about the student's education, language(s) at home, math interest, and references (who already knows this student well at BHS?).
Project Overview: Each student first reflects upon their own social identities. They then choose a social identity group of which they are not a member that they would like to understand more fully through both reading and statistical analysis. They read an article and gather values of a quantitative variable related to the chosen social identity group for each state. Students ultimately construct two histograms to display the distribution of the variable across two different groupings of states.
Student Reflections:
Project Overview: After learning about straight edge and compass constructions, students watch the TED Ed The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design. Each student first observes objects with Islamic geometric design in and around their community. They then create an original Islamic geometric design that is accurately drawn, aesthetically pleasing, and tessellates completely. Here's the full project description.
Student Reflection:
“This was my favorite project of the year! I had never heard of Islamic design before, and now I see it everywhere and know the math involved.” |
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