Lesson Plans Page

Below are several links of lesson plans that incorporate the idea of “rethinking mathematics”. Please review these lessons and add any ideas of your own to the Conference 3 discussion area.

Lesson Plan Website on Making Mathematics Fun!

Visual Math Web Site and Lesson Ideas

Other Lesson Ideas: (If you have any lesson ideas please submit them in the discussion area)

-- Differentiations between the number of males of various races and backgrounds being incarcerated; researching the types of crimes (drug-related, assault, robbery) and the saturation of certain neightborhoods; the availability of positive resources (Big Brother programs, YMCA, afterschool programs, church sponsored programs, social service agencies, etc.

-- Comparing the cost of buying cigarettes with using the money to invest in the stock market. Students can learn about investments.

-- Comparing the number of homicides that have occurred this year in a given area with the number this same time last year. Discussions and real-life solutions to what can be done (aside from the usual solution of hiring more police, who some, in my opinion make more in overtime doing nothing, than some average grandmothers who sit on their porches in inner cities across the U.S.).

-- Researching the effects of Neighborhood Watch program son neighborhoods.

-- Researching education and the graduation rates, testing averages and costs associates with attending private vs. public schools (including religious, charter and homeschooling)