Algebra I Visits Museum
鈥淯h, and why do I need to know this formula?鈥� is every Math teacher鈥檚 favorite question! There are many questions about history that only math can provide the answers to. While touring the Museum, our minds begin to wonder about survival rates, force of impacts, and all kinds of 鈥渨hat ifs.鈥� Shannan McEuen鈥檚 9th grade Algebra I class participated in the American Freedom Museum鈥檚 鈥淪olving History鈥檚 Mysteries鈥� lab this week. Students were challenged to choose a gallery or topic in the Museum that they were interested in and then to come up with 3 math concepts or questions they had about that topic. They compiled statistics and came up with math problems to find the answers. The students not only used their formula skills, they created and solved their own questions about our nation鈥檚 history!