Real World Math

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Real World Math
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Integration of Math Science

• Inquiry based instruction (preferred science
  method) leads to enduring understandings or
  student achievement.
• Understanding math concepts is essential to
  students being able to answer scientific
  questions.

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Math Facts are the tools used to solve real world
problems.

• Inquiry sets the stage and provides the
  motivation for learning facts that will help to
  solve real world problems.
• Math facts are like phonograms in language. They
  are the building blocks for solving more complex
  equations.
• Formulating the equations leads to the
  calculations and answers to real world
  problems/questions.

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Content and Integration

• Use the familiar things we use everyday to begin
  the inquiry and problem solving technique in
  math.
• A word about
• Facts
• Strategies and
• Motivation.

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Math Application Skills

• Problem Solving with Story Problems
• Prediction Estimation
• Measurements (English/Metric)
• Weight
• Length
• Diameter
• Volume
• Temperature
• Time
• Money, decimals
• Graphing

Use the skills of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division
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Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)
Nature of Involvement
After 2 weeks we tend to remember...
Reading
Verbal Receiving
Hearing Words
Looking at Pictures
Passive
Watching a Movie
Looking at an Exhibit
Visual Receiving
Watching a Demonstration
Seeing It Done on Location
Participating in a Discussion
Receiving/ Participating
Giving a Talk
Active
Doing a Dramatic Presentation
Doing
Simulating the Real Experience
Doing the Real Thing
Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd
Edn.), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969).
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Agricultural Ideas

• InsectsBees!
• PlantsPumpkins
• Measuring
• Planning
• AnimalsDairy Cows
• Farm Facts Ag Stats
• Predicting
• Graphing
• Weather (probability and other statistics e.g.
  mean and mode).

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Sum-up

• Some students need more repetition in the facts
  than others.
• Inquiry allows higher order thinking and advanced
  students can go further.
• Recognition over reward.