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Welcome!Real World Math: Engaging Students

through Global Issues

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Dave Wilton

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About Facing the Future

Seattle-based nonprofit founded in 1995

Interdisciplinary global issues and sustainability curriculum for K-12

Over 1.5 million students reached annually

All 50 U.S. states and over 100 countries

Professional development and consulting

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I’m Curious

I Have an Opinion

I Want to Share It

I Want to Be Involved

I Want Bring My Talents

to Bear

Using Math & Real World Data

to Develop Global Competence

Globally competent students must have the

knowledge and skills to:

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~ Anthony Jackson,

Asia Society VP of Education

Investigate the World

Weigh Perspectives

Communicate Ideas

Take Action

Apply Interdisciplinary

& Disciplinary Expertise

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“When Will I Ever Use This?”

Teachers requested:

Engaging „hook‟ activities

Un-manipulated, real world data

Purposeful mathematics skill

development

Acquisition of content knowledge

using meaningful issues

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Global Issues (Algebra + Geometry)

= Real World Math

Teacher‟s Guide & Student Workbook

15 NCTM aligned lessons

Students use 21st-century skillsCritical thinking

Collaboration

Global perspective

Multiple points of implementation:Hook activities at start of a unit

Reinforcement of learned concepts

Assessment of learning

Individual, small group, whole class

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Searchable Database of

State Education Standards

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Aligned with Popular

U.S. Math Textbooks

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15 Engaging Lessons

1. Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

2. Introduction to Algebra: Poverty & Microcredit

3. Modeling Integers: Population Growth

4. Solving Algebraic Equations: Food Choices

5. Data & Graphs: Youth Conflict

6. Number Theory: Consumption Choices

7. Rational Numbers: Financial Decisions

8. Proportion, Percent, & Probability: Global Health

9. Solving Inequalities: Carbon Emissions

10.Spatial Thinking: Solar Power

11.Area & Transformations: Wildlife Habitats

12.Surface Area & Volume: Sustainable Design

13.Linear Functions: Systems & Global Education

14.Midpoint & Distance Formulas: Resource Distribution

15.Data Analysis: Quality of Life

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Critical Thinking Questions:

What are historic and current recycling trends in the US?

What are the impacts of waste disposal?

What are ways to reduce impacts of US produced waste?

Lesson 1 Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

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Lesson 1 Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

Objectives:

Create expressions containing variables that represent

real world patterns

Explore patterns of US disposal and recycling

Use tables and graphs to organize data

Identify number patterns

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Lesson 1 Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

Introductory Activity:

In small groups, answer these

questions about the items on

the next slide:

Where does it go after it’s used?

Can it be reused? If so, how?

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Lesson 1 Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

Introductory Activity:

In small groups, answer these

questions about the items on

the next slide:

Where does it go after it’s used?

Can it be reused? If so, how?

Questions for the whole group:

Is it OK for all these to be landfilled?

How many plastic bottles do you use in a day?

How many are used in the U.S. in 5 minutes?

2 million

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Waste Not, Want Not

2. How many plastic bottles are used in 1 day24 mil. bottles per hour x 24 hours = 576 mil. bottles

3. If 1/3 are recycled daily, how many are not?2/3 x 576 = 384 mil. bottles OR 576 – (1/3 x 576)= 384 mil. bottles

4. 2 consequences of NOT recycling plastic bottles?

5. Create an equation to solve for number of bottles recycled for any number of hours where B=Bottles & H=Hours

B = H x 24 mil. bottles

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Waste Not, Want Not

6. Organize this data

into a line graph

7. Predict the number

of pounds per day

the average person

will discard in 2020

approx. 4.6 to 5.5 lbs

4.6

5.5

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Waste Not, Want Not

8. All materials except plastics and

food scraps make up 76% of

our waste stream.

The % of plastics is the same

as the % of food scraps.

What % of our waste stream is

plastics?

(100% - 76%) / 2 = 12%

9. Recycling 4,050 20 oz. bottles

saves 1 cubic yard of landfill

space.

How many bottles need to be

recycled to save 50 cubic yards

of landfill space?

4,050 x 50 = 202,500

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Waste Not, Want Not

Discussion Questions

Is it important to recycle as much as we can?

What are other ways to reduce the amount of waste we

produce?

Where is the closest landfill to your house? What factors

influence their location? Would you want one near you?

Will the amount of waste generated per person in the U.S.

continue to increase?

What kinds of materials are recyclable in your community?

What are barriers to recycling and ways to overcome them?

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Student Readings

1 page reading per

lesson

Connects a global

issue to its impacts

and possible

student actions

Referenced

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Additional Resources

Images retrieved from www.chrisjordan.com

Partial Zoom

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Iceberg ModelFor understanding root causes and

leverage points of global issues

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Additional Free Resources

Interdisciplinary

10 lessons

Correlated with state and

national science and

social studies standards

Explores the materials

economy and its 5 steps:

Extraction

Production

Distribution

Consumption

Disposal

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Unit Overview

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15 Engaging Lessons

1. Number Patterns: Waste & Recycling

2. Introduction to Algebra: Poverty & Microcredit

3. Modeling Integers: Population Growth

4. Solving Algebraic Equations: Food Choices

5. Data & Graphs: Youth Conflict

6. Number Theory: Consumption Choices

7. Rational Numbers: Financial Decisions

8. Proportion, Percent, & Probability: Global Health

9. Solving Inequalities: Carbon Emissions

10.Spatial Thinking: Solar Power

11.Area & Transformations: Wildlife Habitats

12.Surface Area & Volume: Sustainable Design

13.Linear Functions: Systems & Global Education

14.Midpoint & Distance Formulas: Resource Distribution

15.Data Analysis: Quality of Life

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Lesson 11Area & Transformations: Wildlife Habitat

Critical Thinking Questions:

What are ways to conserve and protect endangered

species?

How is environmental protection linked to the protection of

our livelihoods

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Objectives:

Use formulas to find the area of polygons

Transform figures on a coordinate plane

Analyze ways in which habitat size and location might

affect a species

Discuss ways to ensure species survival

Lesson 11Area & Transformations: Wildlife Habitat

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Write one unique thing you are

able to do? (This should be something

that you are proud of and that not many

people are able to do.)

What would the world be like if no

one had these skills?

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Lesson 11Area & Transformations: Wildlife Habitat

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Home Sweet Habitat

Community Learning

Center East

Catalyst for a school-

wide habitat project

Area & transformations

Perimeter of planting

area, area for weed cloth,

volume for mulch

Language Arts link:

research & writing on

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Home Sweet Habitat

Community connections:

native plant nursery owner,

National Wildlife Steward,

Florida Native Plant Society

Showcase: tours for the

public, PPTs, local publicity

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“It wasn’t an add on, but just a replacement

of less effective materials.”

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“We must teach our students that

they can be architects of the future,

rather than its victims.”

~ Buckminster Fuller, Architect and Philosopher


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