High School Number and Quantity  

How can mathematics help communities use just voting procedures? (N-Q Iowa)

Different kinds of numbers are helpful in different parts of creation.

The “wholeness” of individuals

• Students frequently experience discomfort at the idea of answers that result in a decimal regarding the quantity of people. This is a good time to ask, what is 1.7 people?

  • Does that mean that people are missing body parts?

• As Christians, how do we count people? If someone has an amputated leg, do they count as a whole person? (We count people as souls, not as the sum of the body parts.)

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is on the rise and contributes to pollution. Many companies are seeking to be carbon neutral.

• Joas wants to care for creation and is concerned that it took him $22,700 gallons of fuel to farm the 160 acres of corn that he grew last year. Joas wonders if he is carbon neutral given that green plants absorb carbon dioxide. In his research he learned that each gallon of gasoline emits 19.4 pounds of carbon dioxide, and one acre of corn absorbs 36,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year(Thelen, 2007). How much carbon dioxide is Joas adding or taking away from the environment per acre? N.Q.A.1

How do you anticipate using mathematics in the future?

How does mathematics help a company gives raises in a way that is just?

• http://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/HSN/Q/A/tasks/1850 

How does the biology student in this activity use mathematics to learn more about bacterial growth? F-LE.A, N-RN.A.1

How do scientists use mathematics in the different approaches to carbon dating? N-Q.A.3

Do you think creation is as old as carbon dating suggests? Is it possible God created creation with old things in it?

• http://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/HSS/ID/A/tasks/782

At a track meet timers watch for the smoke of the gun to start their stopwatches not the sound of the gun because the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. How much difference in seconds does it make for a 100-meter dash where the timers are approximately 100 meters away from the starter? (N-Q.A)

• The longest distance that a timers would be from the starters is on the 200-meter dash. Calculate the difference in second taking into account the diagonal across the field.

• https://datagenetics.com/blog/may12015/index.html

How do irrational numbers such as pi reflect God’s character? N-RN.B

• What do you think of when you think of infinity? How does infinity reflect God’s character?

• It is estimated that if we could count one star every second, it would take ten thousand trillion centuries to finish counting. (See Nickel in The Dance of Number page 49)

Use rate conversions to calculate the amount of time in a lifetime spent doing various activities. N-Q

How does the way we spend our time reflect our priorities?

How does the numerical idea of infinity point to aspects of God’s nature?

God is a God of order.

How do the properties that support vector and matrix operations reflect God’s character? N-VM

How do properties reflect the intricacies and order in creation? N-CN.A.2

• How do these relationships within mathematics reflect the interconnectedness of a cohesive creation?

How can estimation help us serve? N-Q.A.3