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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...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the first of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to determine...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the fourth of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups and as a whole class to practice estimating skills to allow them to find...

This resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on fret spacing mathematics. The activity includes a short history of musical scales and fret spacing, learning objectives, standards, references, links to videos, activity questions and answers, and more. Activity learning objectives...

In this lesson, provided by the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students interpret a graph (wire burn-off chart), convert wirefeed speeds into amperage using ratios, and setup the heat energy formula and evaluate Kilo Joules. Equations are solved by paying...

This 20-page paper from Elizabeth Fennema examines the topic of gender differences in learning mathematics. This paper examines changing beliefs about how women learn math, such as a preference for learning cooperatively, and reviews intervention programs for girls and women. Feminist perspectives...

This 4-page report from Sheila Tobias discusses issues related to women in mathematics and science. Key aspects explored include math anxiety and coping strategies, as well as important research on classroom conditions for female math and science students. This document may be downloaded in PDF file...

This 5-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the use of the golden ratio in art. During the activity students will "analyze artwork, watch a lecture/prezi, analyze found images and objects, and watch a video, all on the golden ratio." The learning objectives for...

This 7-page resource, from the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on estimating the cost of building an electric guitar. From estimating the cost of building a guitar, "... students will learn basic business math computation; how to create and use an Excel spreadsheet with formulas; how to search...

This 8-page resource, made available by the STEM Guitar Project, is an activity on the geometric design of guitar bodies. During the activity students will determine the total surface area of a guitar body by "measuring, calculating, and combining the individual areas." The learning objectives for...