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"The
National Math Trail is a way for children to share what they know about
math...a way for them to see what other students in the country are doing and
to share what they are doing here. It's a way to make them feel important,
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The Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education expanded the math trail concept to a national project that can be used by teachers, students and parents to relate math to the real world. Conceived by FASE Curriculum Director Dave Hendry, The National Math Trail is in its third year as a Department of Education Star Schools telecommunications project. It is currently funded through SERC (the Satellite Education Resources Consortium) and NEC Foundation. The National Math Trail is a place on the World Wide Web where students and teachers from any classroom anywhere can post community-based math problems they create. They augment their math problems with photographs, narratives, drawings, video, audio clips, or any other graphic elements that can be digitized. There are now over 800 math problems at the site, each one of them describing an aspect of mathematics in a community somewhere in the world. |
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 At Garden Lakes Elementary in Avondale, Arizona, Mrs. Corley’s first grade students made graphs to track points for the Suns basketball team.Click the picture to go to the problem.
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 Miss Stookey’s seventh grade pre-algebra class at East Valley Middle School in Spokane, Washington tracked the numbers of runners and finishers in the annual Bloomsday race to see if there was a trend.Click the picture to go to the problem. |
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 The Boulder Public Library's window is composed of a tessellation of rectangles. Students at the Nevin Platt Middle School in Boulder, Colorado came up with their own problems and solutions.Click the picture to go to the problem. |
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 Ms. Walton’s seventh grade students from the Merritt Academy in Fairfax, Virginia, went to the National Mall in Washington DC to survey people about a controversial World War II Memorial being planned.Click the picture to go to the problem. |
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Applied Mathematics Students at Orono High School in
Orono,
Maine, did a math trail on conic sections. Part of the assignment was to make a poster of their finds.
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