Middle School Mathematics Modules

AMP-IT-UP curriculum developers have created nine 1-week middle mathematics modules that are designed to be educative for teachers and to promote inquiry learning for students as they engage in the process of collecting, representing, interpreting and making decisions based on data. The modules were designed based on a curricular theory of action that proposes that it is useful for teachers to have access to model instructional units and to practice them in their classes in order to effectively master reform strategies.

The following modules are available for download from the AMP-IT-UP website.

6th Grade

• Some Assembly Required: The Packaging Challenge. Themes: Experimental Design; Statistics and Probability.

• Data Saved the Whales!: The Whale Challenge. Themes: Data Visualization; Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Expressions and Equations.

• Sweet Machines: The Automated Packaging Challenge. Theme: Data-Driven Decision Making; Statistics and Probability.

7th Grade

• It's Game Time: The Board Game Challenge. Theme: Experimental Design; Geometry

• Crab Friend or Foe?: The Crab Aquarium Challenge. Theme: Data Visualization; Ratios and Proportional Relationships.

• Perfecting Your Craft: The Manufacturing Quality Control Challenge. Theme: Data-Driven Decision Making; Statistics and Probability.

Physical Science

• It's Electric!: The Clean Energy Challenge. Theme: Experimental Design; Functions.

• Rescue the Hot Shots!: The Hot Shot Challenge. Theme: Data Visualization; Geometry, Expressions and Equations.

• Power Payoff: The Power Finance Challenge. Theme: Data-Driven Decision Making; Expressions and Equations..