Week 11 started off looking at the academic and applied streams of math. A difference noted in the descriptions and curriculum expectations were the increased emphasis on hands-on applications in the applied courses. This was well demonstrated in the two learning activities presented.
The first activity was a dice area activity for grade 9 applied math. This activity was played in partners and involved rolling two dice and creating rectangles on graph paper of the corresponding size. The activity also required us to determine the perimeter and area of the rectangles.
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I enjoyed this activity and felt that it was a great introduction to the topic of maximizing area with a set perimeter. I also think this activity would provide students with practice on finding area and perimeter of shapes without having to complete a more standard worksheet. The supplies for this activity were minimal (only requiring dice, graph paper, and a recording sheet) so this could easily be used throughout the unit as an activity when students were done other work.
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The grade 10 applied math activity was on the trigonometry topic. In 2 groups we first had a relay style races to complete a game of tic-tac-toe. Then, when divided into two groups based on height, we had to determine how to make the game fair. From this, we calculated stride length and determined the new starting distance for each group to make it fair. I really liked this portion of the game because it did not seem like we were doing much math, were, in reality, there was math and problem solving involved. The second portion of the game involved throwing the rings to a target and then using trigonometry to calculate the different distances. I think an applied math class would like this type of activity, but the classroom space would have to allow for such an activity.
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