Math Modeling and Social Awareness: Climate Change, Opioids, Hot Car Deaths, PayDay Loans, Gun Violence, More T4
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Holiday Inn Portland, Pettygrove Room, Lower level
Use current real-world data to teach mathematics and make students aware of social problems, situations, solutions. Obtain data from Al Gore’s Climate Reality seminar that I attended. Students discover: the whopping interest rates charged; how hot the inside of a car can get in minutes; gun violence data; the numbers behind the opioid crisis. Regressions, problem solving, units conversion, technology. Obtain all activities, data, teacher notes.
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Holiday Inn Portland, Pettygrove Room, Lower level
$ 50
Pre-conference Workshop
Focus, Engagement, Pathways
6-8, 9-12, 13-16
Presented by
Math teacher
Fitch High School / Youngstown State University
Tom has taught mathematics for 35 years at Fitch High School in northeast Ohio where he earned National Board Certification, the Presidential Award, and other recognition. He is the past president of CPAM, Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics. Tom also taught mathematics, computer science, and mathematics education as an adjunct instructor at Youngstown State University for 40 years. Since 2009 he has been working full time as a Senior Math Advisor for Texas Instruments in Product Development and Strategy. Tom has been providing professional development nationally and internationally since 1995, traveling to 49 states and 7 countries.
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Holiday Inn Portland, Pettygrove Room, Lower level
$ 50
Pre-conference Workshop
Focus, Engagement, Pathways
6-8, 9-12, 13-16