9th-12th Grade
Communication and Reasoning Resources
What’s Going On In this Graph? (NY Times)
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7 Ways to Explore the Math of the Coronavirus with the NYT
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Routines for Reasoning - Fostering Math Practices
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Desmos Classroom Activities (plus their activity builder and graphing calculator)
Visual Patterns by Fawn Nguyen - A bank of visual growing patterns. Visual Patterns Assignment Example
Robert Kaplinsky’s “challenging problems worth solving” organized by high school course.
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Number Talks
Secondary Number Talks by Sara Van Der Warf (After reading her ideas, check out all her links at the bottom of the blog post)
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Number Talks by Fawn Nguyen
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Secondary “Math Talks” (from “How We Teach”)
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Number Talks Books: 1) Making Number Talks Matter 2) Digging Deeper
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Book: Up for Debate - Chris Luzniak
Frogs: A logic task from NRich Maths
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Factors and Multiples Game: Another task from NRich which supports strategic thinking and problem solving. Explained by Marilyn Burns
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Nim-Like Games: Logic games from NRich Maths.
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Data Science
Playing computer games creates a lot of data, which usually disappear when the game is over. But in Data Games, you learn to analyze data that are saved, learning math and data skills that help you win!
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Tuva - A data literacy platform (not free)
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Concord Consortium - STEM Resource Finder
You Cubed Data Science Units - Jo Boaler
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Task, data, and resources provided by TODOS at the 2019 CMC Conference.
This is a social justice lesson in which students investigate if there is bias in who the police/highway patrol pull-over.
Here are recent local data
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Data sets related to science experiments (although having students do the experiments and create the data would be more ideal)
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Pew Research Center: Great visual representations of data with explanations of how the data was collected.
Algebra
Functions
Graphing Stories (Kaplinsky)
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In-N-Out 100x100 burger (Kaplinsky)
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8th - 12th Grade Menu: Functions
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Probability
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Probability can be really fun. After getting a sense of the basics and exploring various “games”, students can create their own games of chance, with a discussion about the odds of their games, who the game favors, etc. A discussion and exploration of the Monty Hall 3-door problem is fascinating and does not follow our typical logic. Mathematicians argue about this problem.
Variety of Rich Task Resources
Radical Math - Resources for Teaching Math with a Social Justice Perspective
National Science Digital Library: Type in any math topic and it will provide you with links to tasks.
Robert Kaplinksy’s Video & Image-Launched Tasks
Bowland Math: Performance Tasks
Illustrative Math: Free online curriculum organized by course and standards.
YouCubed. Wealth of resources including low floor, high ceiling tasks.
NRich Maths: Rich Tasks, Puzzles, Games
Mathematical Modeling Resources
