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This page from the Wake Technical Community College website provides activities that focus on connecting industry to math instruction. Activities include Bill of Materials: Matrices, Cool Your Chicken: Algebra and Geometry, Loads of Steel: Algebra, Mind Your Tolerance: Statistics, Solar Energy:...

This 25-page paper from Fred Peskoff is a report on a study used to evaluate the relationship between college students' level of mathematics anxiety and the strategies employed to cope with it. The study found that low mathematics anxiety students tend to utilize a number of "coping strategies" more...

Program Description Bio-Link offers a number of Course-in-a-Box resources intended for instructors to adapt and introduce into new courses. These collections of resources have been compiled and contributed by instructors of Bio-Link programs. Resources can include course descriptions, student...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a mathematics activity designed for seventh graders. In this activity, students "model and graph scientific investigation data related to pheromone concentration versus blue crab mating and predator events." After that, students...

This Crazy Taxi 3 Act Task, created by John Orr, is a "gamified" math lesson. The lesson begins with a scene from a "... video game where a man jumps into a taxi and begins what looks to be a joy-ride. The cost of the taxi ride and the distance traveled are displayed..." The video asks student how...

This lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has students work in groups to represent decimal and mixed number multiplication as area models using base-10 blocks and/or grid paper. The expected total time for the lesson is 65 to 90 minutes. The ...

This resource, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a lesson contextualized for students in the health sector. Students are provided data about Lyme Disease and asked to read graphs and tables for information, create a bar graph, use ratio and...

This lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has students work in groups to work through a set of discovery activities. These activities are intended to help students develop the distributive property of multiplication over addition using the...

This collection, created by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), includes a textbook and related videos that cover essential mathematics for engineering technicians. The book "is a student review and study guide to help aspiring engineering technicians begin studies with...

Lesson Description: This lesson is from a welding course and is provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the lesson, students create a bill of materials including detailed part weight. Topics include calculating weights based on per foot weight...