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This resource is a 3 Act Math lesson created by mathematics teacher Dan Meyer. Each Act includes a video or an image, and a set of questions. The first video shows Dan and his friend on a beach walking towards a taco cart. During the lesson students guess who will reach the cart first. 

This paper, commissioned by the 2011 summit on Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape, discusses the ways two-year mathematics curriculum must improve to prepare students effectively for STEM careers with four core recommendations: 1) Take a P-20 approach to reforming the entire...

This 5-page syllabus includes information about the Vocational Math : Contextualized for Construction course that was offered at Madison Area Technical College. The objective of this course was "to provide the student with an understanding of the mathematical skills necessary for trades and everyday...

These final exam materials were used in the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. The midterm and final exams have a mix of problems that are similar to the homework, and to the in class work. These exams were used in conjunction...

This resource is the first quiz from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. This quiz covers the following first three lessons of the course: Floor Layout, Wood Blocks and Bathroom, and Plywood Shims. Quizzes were 'homework...

This resource is the second quiz from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. This quiz covers lessons four through six: Floor Tiling, Right Angle, and Pouring Concrete. Quizzes were 'homework quizzes' meaning the problems came...

This resource is the first quiz from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. This quiz covers the lessons eight through nine: Sidewalk Slope, Percents, and Spacing. Quizzes were 'homework quizzes' meaning the problems came...

This midterm exam was used in the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. The midterm and final exams have a mix of problems that are similar to the homework, and to the in class work. These exams were used in conjunction with the...

This 6-page document, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the wave behavior of guitar harmonics. During the activity students will "model how energy transfers from the guitar string to the ear hearing the harmonic." The learning objectives for this activity are: Students...

This lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has students work in pairs to work through calculations about welding wire. Calculations include unit conversions (inch per amp convert to inch per minute), determining rates of inches per day, pounds...