Equation Projects

Students completed these equation projects earlier in the year, mostly on the SMARTBoard. I finally got a chance to convert most of them into PowerPoint slide shows so that you should be able to download and view them. Check out their good work!

PowerPoint downloads:

• Akilah Shawnae Victoria
• Bobby Alek’s math project
• Dalton Math Project
• Darian, Alec, Blake, Wyatt
• Dylan Justin
• ERIN AND STEPHANIE SLIDE PROJECT FOR MATH
• Haley Victoria
• henne
• MackenzieP
• Maggie[1]

Screencasts (require Flash player):

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• abhinav_austin_ryan_X
• abhinav_austin_ryan_2step
• Jesse equations
• KristenAudreyHayley add
• KristenAudreyHayley-
• KristenAudreyHayleyX
• KristenAudreyHayley2step
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn addition
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn subtraction
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn multiplication
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn 2step

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Applegate Grant

As we close out the school year, I would like to thank the John Russell Applegate Fund for Teachers at Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation, based here in North Platte, for funding Adams Middle School’s “Interactive Technology for Math Students” grant.  Through the funding they provided, our school was able to purchase two Elmo TT-02s document cameras and two SMART Airliner wireless slates to increase student engagement in the mathematics curriculum.  (To see just a few of the products we digitally photographed, visit these links: http://madmathteacher.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/tessellations-symmetry/ and http://madmathteacher.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/circle-graph-winners/.)  Students were able to share their work much more effectively and more engagingly using these tools — the days of recopying their work onto the board or overhead projector are gone! — and as the teacher, I was able to write on the digital chalkboard from anywhere in the classroom, enhancing my ability to support students throughout the classroom even during whole-class instruction.  We are very grateful to the Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation for the learning opportunities they have helped to provide and expand, and so we publicly thank them for funding our Applegate Grant application.

Geometry Formulas

• If you could be any one of the formulas we’ve studied, which one would you be, and why?
  • square A = S²
  • rectangle A = L x W
  • parallelogram A = B x H
  • triangle A = 1/2 x B x H
  • trapezoid A = 1/2 x (B1 + B2) x H
  • circle A = π x R²
  • circumference C = π x D
  • rectangular prism V = L x W x H
  • rectangular prism SA = 2 (L x W + L x H + W x H)
  • cylinder V = π x R² x H
  • cylinder SA = 2 x π x R² + π x D x H
• Find a new formula that you think is interesting. Share the link and tell why you chose it.
• On a totally unrelated note, today (5/7/09) is an Odd Day — one of only six days this century whose date features three consecutive odd numbers (this happened on 1/3/05 and 3/5/07 and will happen again on 7/9/11,  9/11/13, and 11/13/15). Check out the web site http://www.oddday.net/ and tell us what you think about it.