Math students shape letters on football field
When students use math, including geometry, to shape letters on a football field, they learn lessons about more than math, such as leadership.
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U-46 hopes to make 8th-grade math less stressful
A career in the 21st century will require more problem-solving ability than one a hundred years ago would have. Sharpen those algebra skills.
Urschel: We can bring math into kids’ real lives
An offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens tells us about a new project he's working on to help get kids excited about the math they use every day.
Grade 4 PARCC math: add fraction grids
Adding and comparing fractions using a decimal grid is a skill 4th graders should be able to do on the PARCC tests coming up this year.
Census Bureau posts ~100 statistics lesson plans
Learning about statistics is important in a world filled with questionable media accounts of trends. Statistics with real data is even better.
Grade 8 Common Core math: Price per gallon
Predicting gas prices is a tricky business. A lot depends on an understanding of ratios and proportions and the ability to reason with math.
Hogan orders more summer, gets an earful
For math students, it's a calendar problem to schedule 180 school days between Labor Day and June 15. Is it possible mathematically?
Grade 5 Common Core math: Joshua’s garden
A garden has to be measured, and that requires some skill with fractions, as Joshua and a family in California find out.
Grade 7 PARCC math: furniture store sale
Shopping at a grocery store or a furniture store means you have to know about sales tax and discounts, perfect for a 7th-grade math standard.
Grade 3 PARCC math: Andre at the library
Two- and three-step word problems that involve a mixture of addition and subtraction will be tested on the PARCC test in 3rd grade.