Estimation 180: Ferrari Ride
(View Complete Item Description)This is a three act task where students are asked to determine a relationship between the rate of a ferrari and the length of a rope.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
All resources in Middle School Math (6-8)
Open Middle Task: Ordering Rational Numbers
(View Complete Item Description)Open Middle tasks provide opportunities for student to approach a mathematical task using different strategies and representations. They can be used as a warm-up/closing activity, as a formative assessment, or to facilitate discourse and discussion and get insite into student thinking and problem solving. These tasks provide a great opportunity for student to engage with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Math Shorts: Proportional Relationships
(View Complete Item Description)In this video, learn how ratios, tables, and graphs can help identify proportional relationships. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use a classic mathematical task to improve their understanding of ratios and proportions. After watching the video and having a brief class discussion and review of ratios, students work in pairs to determine which of two punch mixtures tastes more like juice. This set of problems extends students' understanding of ratios while requiring them to use both multiplicative and additive reasoning in their responses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab