Monday 3 Aug 1:15 – 3:15 pm
Aleta Doss (Oregon Trail School District)
Using hands-on activities to meet CCSS standards
Grades: 9 – 12
My Google website link:
https://sites.google.com/a/ortrail.k12.or.us/mrs-doss/
Options to find website:
-- Google search for Website Aleta Doss Math
-- Sandy High School, select about Sandy High School, scroll down to staff, scroll down to math,
Click on my website below my name.
Smarterbalanced: Helpful details about what to expect. High school content begins on p 49 of: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Math-Content-Specifications.pdf.
Performance Task Practice Test Scoring Guide:
ODE link:
http://www.ode.state.or.us/news/announcements/announcement.aspx?id=9610&typeid=4
Direct link to scoring guides: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/resources/
Thank you to Jennifer Bell who sent these links to me.
For student handout scroll to the bottom, it is an uploaded document. The handout guides student reflection as they analyze the scoring guide.
Quiz Summary of Session:
1) Spaghetti Becomes Triggy
Choose trigonometric functions to model periodic phenomena with specified amplitude, frequency, and midline.*
You and your partner will need:
a long piece of paper -- Draw an x and y axis with the long ruler
a circle
a dark pen I use coloring markers in the classroom we will be using permanent markers
(note – permanent markers may go through the paper)
a string a bit longer than the circumference of your circle
a ruler or use your own straight edge
a protractor -- or share with another group
a glue stick
three or four pieces of spaghetti
2) Sailing into Math
Video -- http://mashable.com/2013/02/19/8-cool-applications-math/
#3 about 9 minutes
http://mathforum.org/mathimages/index.php/Solving_Triangles (and a math lesson too)
Interesting math videos suitable to mixed groups of students... such as those who have finished or are not taking the CCSS exam.
For student handout scroll to the bottom, it is an uploaded document. The handout guides student reflection as they analyze the scoring guide.
3) Discuss Ideas from this page.
5) Oreos -- Math in a Cookie!
Apply concepts of density based on area and volume in modeling situations (e.g., persons per square mile, BTUs per cubic foot).*
You and your partner will need:
One of each cookie
Waxed paper about 4X4 inches (or freezer wrap)
Plastic knives
6) New SAT Practice
Geometry
Double Stuffed Oreos
For student handout scroll to the bottom, it is an uploaded document.
Adapted by Jana Mitchell jana.mitchell@ortrail.k12.or.us
Answer according to CNN site
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/us/oreo-high-school-experiment/index.html
"Double Stuf? Not really. Try 1.86 times the stuff of a regular Oreo. Mega Stuf? Try again. How about 2.68 times the stuff."
Teacher blog of original, double and mega stuffed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/creme-oreo_n_3767983.html
Verified by weight.
http://blog.recursiveprocess.com/2013/08/20/oreo-verification/
http://www.governing.com/columns/potomac-chronicle/gov-school-lunch-regulations.html
** NOTE POSSIBLE FOOD ALLERGIES!
(article regarding permission slips needed for students to eat Oreos.)
n Pass around ipad to show pictures of Scale Model & Tin Men.
Scale Model Box Project -- adapted from:
http://www.pleacher.com/mp/mlessons/geometry/similar.pdf
Tin Men -- adapted from:
https://ilearn.marist.edu/access/content/user/10026480%40marist.edu/Assessments/Tin%20Man%20Project.pdf
For student handout scroll to the bottom, it is an uploaded document.
Adapted by Jana Mitchell jana.mitchell@ortrail.k12.or.us
Geometry Bingo
Published in TOMT -- accessible under member login. (Written under my maiden name, Kandle.)
Algebra I & Algebra II & Trigonometry
Spaghetti Graphs Sine & Cosine Curves
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2870
Trig games -- After designing the game students play another's game.
Jana Mitchell adapted & typed one for Trigonometry. jana.mitchell@ortrail.k12.or.us
Rational Functions Matching Game
Quadratic Functions graphing
http://theparabolaproject.blogspot.com/
An extensive lesson using computers to describe real life parabolas to application of parabolas in real life.
Teachers Pay Teachers 21st Century Math Projects, Quadratic Catapult
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quadratic-Catapult-Integrated-Physics-Advanced-Algebra-STEM-Project-1001246
Used by Jaime Nippert (jaime.nippert@ortrail.k12.or.us) and
Leslie Nicholas (leslie.nicholas@ortrail.k12.or.us)
The Unit Circle by Kristin DeWit
http://www.wpracetech.com/tor/unit-circle-free-pdf-by-kristin-dewitt/
Exponential Growth and Decay Project
Used by Jaime Nippert (jaime.nippert@ortrail.k12.or.us)
Leslie Nicholas (leslie.nicholas@ortrail.k12.or.us)
Any Level:
Bucket of Lies
http://simplifyingradicals2.blogspot.com/2012/09/bucket-o-lies.html
For student handout scroll to the bottom, it is an uploaded document.
Second Semester Geometry Review
Adapted by Jana Mitchell jana.mitchell@ortrail.k12.or.us
Function Matching Games published in TOMT -- accessible under member login. (Written under my maiden name, Kandle.)
Linear Fun! September 2008 p5
Quadratic Fun! May/June 2009 p21
Literature in Math Class
Check out math adventure books from Charlesbridge publishing from your local library. A few are available for perusal.
Making Music with Pythagoras and the Ratios, May/June 2012, p21
Review vocabulary with an optional assignment of creating their own story, comic strip etc.
Published in TOMT -- accessible under member login. (Written under my maiden name, Kandle.)
The Project of Learning Vocabulary, January/February 2012, p40
NetWork:
TOMT (The Oregon Mathematics Teacher) has excellent contact information as well as OCTM website.
http://www.octm.org/octm-board/area-representatives/
-- Connect locally.
http://www.octm.org/octm-events/contests/
-- Contests can generate enthusiasm for learning and perhaps improve test scores.
Member Log in -- use index to find more ideas for teaching.
TOMT -- May/June 2010 p19 -- CCSS middle school level review of data analysis with literature & sports theme.
Reference article by Irving Lubliner’s published December 2008
"Lubliner’s challenge is to create data sets where, for example, the mode < mean <range
< median, mean <mode <range < median or range <mode < median < mean."
-- Free TOMT's available.
NEW SAT:
"Quick Facts
Most math questions will be multiple choice, but some will be student-produced responses (grid-ins).
The Math Test is divided into two portions: Math Test – Calculator and Math Test – No Calculator.
Some parts of the test present students with a scenario and then ask several questions about it.
Distinctive Features
The Math Test is characterized by questions that:
Test mathematical reasoning in a way that reflects the work students are doing in classrooms across the country.
Emphasize fluency and understanding.
Ask students to solve problems grounded in science, social science, career scenarios, and other real-life contexts.
The test covers all math practices, with an emphasis on problem solving, modeling, using appropriate tools strategically, and recognizing and using algebraic structure."
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/test-design/math
* The link above includes acceptable forms for "Grid in" answers.
“Specific Topics from include:
Heart of Algebra, which focuses on the mastery of linear equations and systems.
Problem Solving and Data Analysis, which is about being quantitatively literate.
Passport to Advanced Math, which features questions that require the manipulation of complex equations.
Additional Topics in Math, which includes the geometric and trigonometric skills most relevant to college and career readiness.”
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/test-design/math
"Students can take the new SAT starting March 2016. It will replace the current SAT and be offered throughout the school year. Most students in the class of 2017 will take the new SAT. So will students in the class of 2018 and later.
Students often take the SAT in the spring of 11th grade and again in the fall of 12th grade."
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat
Sample test WITH ANSWERS (similar in content to Smarter Balanced practice questions.):
https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sample-questions/math