Education
These are the mathematical practices students should be doing when learning mathematics.
What are the SMPs?
The math term for the average of a data set
What is mean?
A Thanksgiving dinner starts at 3:30 PM and lasts 2.5 hours. When does it end?
6:00 PM
A string of lights has 200 bulbs. 15% are broken. How many still work?
170
This number is approximately 2.71828 and is the base of the natural logarithm.
What is Euler's number?
The published summary of content standards that guide how we teach math courses
What is the Alabama Course of Study?
A rigid transformation that turns a figure around a fixed point
What is rotation?
A snowflake has rotational symmetry of order 6. How many degrees does it rotate before it looks the same again?
60 degrees
A rectangular gift box has dimensions 10 × 8 × 6 inches. What is the total surface area?
376 square inches
The mathematical name for the pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...?
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
Ongoing assessment to monitor student's understanding and guide instructional decisions
What is Formative Assessment?
A triangle with three different side lengths
What is a scalene triangle?
If December 25 falls on a Monday, what day of the week will January 1 fall on?
If Santa visits 24 houses per hour for 8 hours, how many houses does he visit?
192
In Good Will Hunting, Will solves incredibly difficult problems on what type of surface in the hallway?
What is a chalkboard?
Mathematically, knowing both what to do and why
What is relational understanding?
A geometric transformation that combines a translation and a reflection across a line or plane that is parallel to the direction of the slide
What is a glide reflection?
You have one pumpkin pie. You give your friend 1/2 of the pie, your sibling 1/2 of whats remaining, and your parent 1/2 of whats remaining after that. What fraction of the pie is left?
1/8
There are 12 days of Christmas. How many hours are in those 12 days?
288
In this movie, three mathematicians help NASA calculate trajectories and send astronauts into space.
What is Hidden Figures?
The difficulty and level of thinking processes required for students to engage in a task
What is cognitive demand?
A number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers
What is an irrational number?
A family spends $180 on Thanksgiving dinner. The cost increases by 15% next year. What will the new cost be?
$207
Santa has 120 presents. He delivers 30% before midnight and half of the remaining presents afterward. How many does he have left?
42
In this movie, a teenager uses 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to travel through time in a DeLorean.
What is Back to the Future?