Helphing Middle Schools Climb the Math Wall

Ed Post

Kids also are encouraged to create their own real-life examples of math in action, often with a music or art connection. For example, 7th-grade math teachers wanted students to use proportions in a project. Some students used scale factors to enlarge their own drawings. Others played a piece of music to demonstrate  intervals, or the ratio of frequencies in the pitches that make up a musical chord. In a third option, other students scaled up a recipe to feed the entire class and then cooked it for everyone to enjoy.

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Author: Alexandria Frost