The
Noon Day project -
students measure shadows to find out
what the
circumference of the earth is. (That is what Eratosthenes did in Egypt
2200
years ago.)
Warm up: The Pizza
Slice Problem
The Million
Three-cube Roll Race -
Predict who will win! Middle
school
students will contribute to the race by rolling 3 dice 100 times and
posting
their results on the Internet. The goal will be to reach a million
rolls.
(Can we do it?)
Warm Up: the one and two cube roll games.
The Great
Green Globs contest -
Students will try to get the best
score by
"shooting down" globs on a coordinate X Y axis by entering in equations.
Lesson: Everything You Ever Wanted to
Know about Equations, Lines, Slopes, and Graphs but Were Afraid to Ask
You can find out more about these and
other activities on the CIESEmath Website:
http://www.ciese.org/ciesemath