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Math Teacher Highlights
Design can provide a memorable context for learning
and using mathematics, including making and using estimates,
quantifying a product's performance, and seeing qualitative
relationships between a product's features and its outcome
variables. Almost all of the activities with a shorter
timeframe could be used as an anchoring example from
which to create meaningful Transfer
Tasks.
These include:
1. Stuff That Works! Shopping
Bag task (surface area/volume, cost/benefit ratio)
2. Pop-Up
Books (calculating mechanical advantage of various
linkages)
3. LBD's Machines
That Help (another challenge involving mechanical
advantage)
4. LBD's Model
Parachute and Vehicles
In Motion tasks (calculating and rounding rate of
speed, using Newton's 1st & 2nd Laws of Motion,
figuring out amounts of surface area and volume)
5. Model Crane
challenge (trigonometry and vector forces, mechanical
advantage);
6. All of the projects found in DITC from Challenges
In Physical Science, including Paper
Bridge (vectors),
Electromagnet (cost/benefit ratios) and the Baking
Soda (ratios) chemistry challenge.
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