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Math In The News: Vermont Bans Texting While Driving
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Vermont Bans Texting While Driving. One of the items the VT state legislature concerned itself with during the 2010 legislative session is the use of electronic devices by drivers. The legislature passed bills making it illegal for anyone to text while driving a motor vehicle. The basis of these laws is that a distracted driver has slower reactions than a non-distracted driver. Repeat the exper...
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Math In The News: That book costs HOW much??!!
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. That book costs HOW much? In early April a graduate student was searching for a copy of this genetics text:. Upon searching for the book, and then locating it on Amazon, the researcher was stunned to find that the book was listed at well over a million dollars! Here's the screenshot from Amazon on the day this was noticed:. Some good questions that arise from this:. Days after April 8th. Mr Ande...
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Math In The News: Integrating Current News Events into High School Math Teaching and Learning
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Sunday, July 4, 2010. Integrating Current News Events into High School Math Teaching and Learning. Virtual Conference on Soft Skills. In the past, I have used hands on labs, "realistic" word problems, and graphing technology to help students make these connections. This year, I decided to try to make the connection even more direct by using real, current news stories as the basis for some of our problems. The units w...
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Math In The News: Soda is How Cheap?!?!
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Sunday, May 23, 2010. Soda is How Cheap? I recently watched the documentary film Food Inc. It was a good look at how badly mishapen our food productions systems have become. The central message of the film is how we have given over the control of our nourishment to the hands of a handful of huge coorporations whose sole goal is certainly not public health or sustainability,but only maximizing short term profits.
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Math In The News: Brainstorms for Problems
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. When a stone is skipped across the surface of a pond, when and where do the ripples from consecutive splashes intersect? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Math or Education Blogs I Read. I wouldn't know a gerund if it bit me in the ankle. Describing my path through practice and pedagogy - Point of Inflection. Mr Anderson's Blog Standards Based Grading.
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Math In The News: Payday Lenders
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. I went on kind of a long drive last week (3200 mile round trip to Barkus, MN to pick up my Scamp. Here is a video from PBS Newshour that explains some of the ins and outs of payday lending:. I think it'd be a great exercise in financial literacy (and it could easily be expanded to include issues of social justice) to have my students go to a payday lender's website (for instance My Cash Now.
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Math In The News: BP Oil Spill
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Saturday, May 1, 2010. An offshore oil rig off the coast of Louisiana burned and sank in late April 2010, causing a massive leak of crude oil into the gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reported on it here. And you can watch a video clip of a news report on the spill here:. The well is leaking 5,000 barrels of oil per day (Thought to be true initially, but later raised a great deal). May 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM. Has anyo...
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Math In The News: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Friday, January 21, 2011. Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow! Last week we had one of the biggest single day snowfalls I can remember. We went from basically bare ground to about 20 inches of snow on the ground in one day! The sheer volume and immensity of all that white stuff calls out for a mathematical analysis:. January 22, 2011 at 2:40 PM. Great catch, Kevin. I love it. Lets go further with this. ...Finally, ...
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Math In The News: A Deluge
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Math In The News. Integrating current news events into high school mathematics teaching. Saturday, October 2, 2010. This week saw massive rains in Vermont and elsewhere up and down the East Coast . The intensity of the rains and subsequent flooding are described in this article taken from the Brattleboro Reformer:. Flooding closes Vt. roads, state offi. Ces as storm slams East coast. Find the average rate of change of the water level (stage) from 10AM Friday to 10AM Saturday. The left hand scale gives th...
