Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this lesson, students will explore angles of incline on different wheelchair ramps by researching the ADA's accessibility standards, measuring different surfaces of a ramp, and uncovering missing angles using inverse trigonometric functions. Students will have the opportunity to share their own ideas... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 2nd, 2022
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
This lesson invites students to explore scientific models and simulations to learn about climate and weather phenomena. Students will learn from a meteorologist about how those in the field of climatology use math and science in their careers, as well as the details of this job and career path. By the... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: May 25th, 2022
ICAP Science: Weather
This lesson engages students in constructing the Pythagorean theorem using Cheez-It® crackers. Students will not only be able to visually see the theorem, but they will also subsequently prove why the Pythagorean theorem works for all right triangles. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: May 17th, 2022
Constructing Pythagorean Theorem
Students will look at the increase in seismic activity in Oklahoma and around the United States in recent years. Some say the earthquakes are a direct result of an oil and gas process called hydraulic fracturing, while others disagree. Students will investigate this question for themselves and formulate... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 13th, 2022
Earthquakes in Oklahoma
In this lesson, students explore the connections between graphs that represent a particle's position, velocity, and acceleration. Students have an opportunity to write about their learning and put their conceptual understanding into practice. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 5th, 2021
Connecting Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
This lesson is a follow-up to I Sub, U-Sub, We All Sub. In the previous lesson, students worked with the teacher to create an anchor chart of what "worked" and what "didn't work" for anti-differentiating derivatives of functions. The goal of this lesson is to build upon that knowledge in order for students... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 5th, 2021
Integration: u-substitution pt. 2
This lesson builds on students' prior knowledge of basic integration techniques in calculus. The purpose of this lesson is to allow students to explore how to "undo" a function's derivative that was found using the chain rule. The chain rule is a derivative technique that allows students to find derivatives... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: September 18th, 2020
Integration: u-sub Pt. 1
In this lesson, students will explore the puzzling ideas behind Grandi's series in order to construct an idea of how the sum of an infinite number of terms in a sequence can be evaluated. After exploring Grandi's series, students take a closer look at limits of rational functions as their values of... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 5th, 2021
Limits Toward Infinity in Rational Functions
Students will create three-dimensional representations of volumes with known cross sections in order to better understand what the solids look like and to better calculate volume. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 2nd, 2020
Volumes with Known Cross Sections
Metaphors are often associated with flowery, figurative language and do not routinely find their way into mathematics courses. In this lesson, we create space for students to form arguments and better understand mathematically abstract concepts when they are provided opportunities to connect them to... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: January 13th, 2021
Mathematics As Metaphor
