Real Life Math

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Real Life Math
Recognize how math concepts help us understand
our world by using math skills to read a variety
of documents from life in the past. Help your
students use digital sources from the Library of
Congress Web site www.LOC.gov to build a
historical context for this type of work.
Unknown. (1912). Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Library of
Congress American Memory, Baseball Cards,
1887-1914.
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Understanding Goal Math provides a lens that
helps us see our world. Investigative
Question How is Math used to comprehend real
documents?
Berry, P. (1986). Washington Monument, Fifteenth
Street between Independence Constitution,
Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, HABS(Historic
American Buildings Survey)/HAER/HALS.
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Real Life Math

• Knowledge participants will use
• Library of Congress resources can be used to
  widen and deepen students understanding of the
  curriculum.
• Primary sources facilitate efforts to
  differentiate instruction to address specific
  learner needs.
• Primary source analysis reveals student
  understanding and builds literacy skills.
• Skills participants will use
• Make connections between primary sources and
  prior knowledge through thinking.
• Recognize differentiated instruction in terms of
  content, process, and product.
• Use an understanding goal in a Learning
  Experience.
• Apply primary source inquiry strategies to
  current setting.

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Real Life Math with Historical documents

• Agenda
• Images Draw You In
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/db/LE/display
  .php?pOverviewk1193
• 2. Influential Americans Math Jeopardy
• http//primarysourcelearning.org/tps/students/demo
  nstrate.shtml
• 3. Zoom-In Inquiry
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/teaching_mate
  rials/zooms.php
• 4. Discussion and Questions

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Introduction Images Draw You In
Understanding Goal Images draw us into a
topic. Investigative Question What do you see in
this image?

• Choose an image that
• relates to something that you teach,
• connects to a personal experience, or
• inspires questions.

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Introduction Images Draw You In

• Add a question that would draw students into
  discussing the image.
• 2. Share your name, image, why you chose the
  image, and the question.

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Introduction Images Draw You In

• Connect your image and question to a large scale
  understanding goal.
• Best PracticeTeaching for Understanding
• 4. Consider Best PracticeDifferentiated
  Instruction
• Content Library resource
• Process student investigation actions
• Product student outcome

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Influential Americans Jeopardy
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Learn more about using primary sources to assess
student understanding
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Learn more about using primary sources to assess
student understanding
Zoom
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Discussion and Questions
Understanding Goal Math helps us see our
world. Investigative Question How can we help
students use knowledge to deepen understanding
and recognize different perspectives in the
world?
Berry, P. (1986). Washington Monument, Fifteenth
Street between Independence Constitution,
Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, HABS(Historic
American Buildings Survey)/HAER/HALS.