Yingying's Math Teaching
Teaching math for a thoughtful world!
Big Idea
Having completed my student teaching in a project-based school setting, I have a few ideas on future project that I might like to try with my students. Check out some of these ideas below.
Build a shelter for homeless people
How can you build a shelter for homelesss people with 500 dollars?
Essential Questions
What kind of shelter can you design and build for homeless people with only 500 dollars?
Key Products and Audience:
Students will work with community volunteers or churches to design “tiny house” shelters for real homeless people, and build them by themselves. Their audience or uses will be the homeless people or people who need this tiny house.
Key Learning Goals, with relevant learning standards,
Learn how to use what they have learned in geometry to design a “tiny house”
Collaboratively work with community volunteers, building experts, and architecture to design and build tiny houses.
Measure materials, organize money, and build the house within the limited money.
Cultivate a sense of empathy and make a change as an agent
California content standard(s):
Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.
Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.
Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume, and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.
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