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PG-Clothed Vitruvian Man for Middle School |
One of my goals in my middle-school math classes is to cross pollinate with lots of common knowledge. The younger grades in our K-12 charter school use the Core Knowledge Sequence of books edited by E.D. Hirsh Jr, which provides a basis for common language our multi-cultural students can share. For example, if I say "We're in the red", students may have no context for the expression.
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(Measure across the back!!! Girls will quickly realize why.) I have prepped by creating two measurement stations in the room with meter sticks (or yard sticks) taped to the wall, or door jam. When I use yard sticks, I tape the stick one yard from the floor.
We use this data periodically throughout the year, but finish this activity by finding mean, median, any mode and range. The collected data is a great basis for later lessons on scatter plots, percent of change, data representation in box and whisker plots and other graphs. Have fun with it!
BTW, when you pull the data out later, you'll need to know the idiom "Good things come in small packages" because there will always be one student who hasn't grown even a smidge.
Thanks for checking out my new Math blog. I look forward to your comments.
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