Measuring Tremendous Trees: Discovery in Action

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
Sheryl A. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematics Class

Twenty-four middle school students gathered around their teacher, curiously anticipating the upcoming activity. They were enjoying the weather and being outside—a different place to hold their mathematics class. The day before, they experienced a minidiscovery lesson about isosceles right triangles. Today, they were to link this concept to a tree-measuring activity that was designed by a teacher educator at a nearby university.

The Case of Video Viewing, Reading, and Writing in Mathematics Class: Solving the Mystery

1993 ◽  
Vol 86 (8) ◽  
pp. 682-685
Author(s):  
Frances R. Curcio ◽  
J. Lewis McNeece
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Problem Solver ◽  
Mathematics Lesson ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Video Viewing ◽  
Mathematics Class ◽  
Mathematics Problem

The element of mystery can be a naturally intriguing component of a mathematics lesson for middle school students. Mystery stories capture students“ interest and attention and contribute to developing critical-reading skills (Crouse and Bassett 1975; Curcio 1982; Scalzitti 1982). When presenting mystery stories within the context of a mathematics lesson, students often ask, “What does this have to do with mathematics?” Significant connections can be made between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem that supply a rationale for incorporating mystery stories in the mathematics class. In particular, similarities in the questions a problem solver asks when confronting a problem (Polya 1973) and the questions a detective asks in solving a mystery can be found in figure 1. After solving short mystery stories, students will see the connection between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem.

Teacher to Teacher: Truss(t)ing Triangles

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 394-396
Author(s):  
Bobbye Hoffman Bartels
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematics Class ◽  
Traditional Mathematics ◽  
Saturday Academy ◽  
School Schedule ◽  
Rigidity Characteristic

Often middle school students see no connection between geometry and real life. The following activity was designed to help make this connection for seventh-grade students participating in a Saturday academy. The activity centers on an elementary investigation of the rigidity characteristic of triangles, a concept seldom mentioned in K-8 mathematic textbooks but essential to the construction of structures that have to absorb tremendous forces and not collapse. Although this activity was completed outside the traditional mathematics class, it can be adapted to a school schedule and completed over two or more class periods.

Historical Research: How to Fit Minority and Women's Studies into Mathematics Class

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Margaret Sáraco
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Hair Color ◽  
School Students ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Mathematics Class

Ask middle school students to name their favorite musicians, athletes, or actors, and they will tell you everything about them: statistics, hair color, who they are married to, where they live, their accomplishments, and more. Students are exposed to celebrities every day through television, movies, radio, and the Internet. Isn't it time we expose our students to some mathematical heroes?

Mathematics Makes Robots Roll

2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (7) ◽  
pp. 565-572
Author(s):  
Kyle M. Dunbar ◽  
Kathryn M. Rich
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematics Class

Codable robots can be used in mathematics class to help middle school students realize a purpose for what they have been learning.

“Welcome to The Shop”

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-410
Author(s):  
H. Bernard Hall
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
After School ◽  
White Female ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
And Behaviors

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the ways in which hip-hop pedagogies and literacies encouraged middle school students to explore performance poetry as a tool to “(w)right” the truth(s) about learning and living in their local and global communities. Design/methodology/approach Collaborative self-study research methodologies were used by the author, a black male teacher educator and hip-hop cultural insider, along with two white, female reading specialists and hip-hop cultural outsiders, to collect and analyze the practices and behaviors used in The Shop – an after-school hip-hop-based spoken word poetry club for middle school students in a small, urban public school district in Northeastern USA. Findings Three primary findings emerge: teachers with limited cultural and content knowledge of hip-hop may struggle to negotiate real and perceived curricular constraints associated with using pedagogies with hip-hop texts and aesthetics in traditional school contexts, the intersections of teachers’ racial, cultural and gender identities informed the respective practices and behaviors in a number of interesting ways, and using hip-hop pedagogies for social justice in public schools requires a delicate balance of both transparency and discretion on the part of teachers. Originality/value Study findings are salient for in- and pre-service English teachers and English educators, as they offer insights and reflections on the instructional and relational challenges cultural outsiders may face when using hip-hop culture to create spaces and opportunities for young people to talk back and speak truth to power.

Traumatic experiences and associated symptomatology in Asian American middle school students.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Davies-Mercier ◽  
Michelle W. Woodbridge ◽  
W. Carl Sumi ◽  
S. Patrick Thornton ◽  
Katrina D. Roundfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
School Students

Longitudinal Effects of School Climate on Middle School Students' Development

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Engelland ◽  
Renee M. Tobin ◽  
Adena B. Meyers ◽  
Brenda J. Huber ◽  
W. Joel Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Longitudinal Effects

Perceived Social Support and Middle School Students' School Adjustment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Geun Kim ◽  
Yejin Lee ◽  
Bo-Ra Song ◽  
Hyunah Lee ◽  
Jung Eun Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
School Adjustment ◽  
School Students
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