| Practical mathematics activities from a range of everyday contexts that are most suitable for motivating students.
The Maths in... series has been designed for students in years 9 and 10. However, work sheets could be used to motivate and add interest to any Junior or Middle School Mathematics course by demonstrating how mathematics can be applied to everyday life.
Maths in the Environment topics include:
* Geometrical shapes
* Estimating crowd sizes
* Estimating animal populations
* Exponential graphs
* Case study of the platypus
* Using and abusing graphs
* Fibonacci Sequence and Spiral activities
* Statistics and tables
* Time
* Calculating area
* Formulas and percentage
* Circumference
* Using industry formulas. |
