Mathematics

= = =Content Area: Mathematics =

Curriculum Standard:

 * Sixth grade, Number, Number Sense, and Operations ** Use proportional reasoning, ratios, and percents to represent problem situations and determine the reasonableness of solutions

Technology:
Video Clips, Game simulations

Description:
Students will watch an introductory video available from www.brainpop.com on ratios and proportions. Students will then play a game simulation available from www.schooltimegames.com in which they will apply problem solving skills involving ratios and proportions to run a lemonade stand and/or coffee shop.

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Supporting Resource:
A 2008 article written by Marc Prensky discusses that the role of technology in the classroom should be to teach students to take responsibility for their own learning by teaching themselves the content using teachers only for guidance. This activity uses this approach through the use of a self guided lesson involving technology into the educational process. Students are able to practice the skills in a simulation where they are making individual choices and adjusting decisions.

Prensky, Mark. (2008). //The Role of Technology.// Retrieved October 22, 2009 from > @http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-The_Role_of_Technology-ET-11-12-08.pdf

Tried and True or New and Innovative:
This activity is new and innovative because students are combining technologies to solve a real-world situational problem. Students are also using two websites that are fairly new. The simulation activity on the School Time Games web site is also a very new and innovated practice in mathematics. Using a game and a real-life situation makes this activity very relative to the students which will help their comprehension.