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Audrey Brassell
Curriculum Map
Course #79453
10/11/2015

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Curriculum Map

Modeling: Analyzing real world situations using mathematics to understand the

situation better and optimize troubleshoot, or make an informed decision.
Statistics and Probability: Working with probability and using ideas from probability in
everyday situations.
Functions: Working with function families and understanding their behavior

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A Study of Sleep Habits

Overview: The students are going to track their sleep habits and then make graphs
using the data to analyze whether or not their sleep habits are healthy.
Materials:

Sleep Log
Student Journals
Computers with internet access
Overhead projector

Warm Up: Have the students write down (in their student journals) approximately how
much sleep they think they get every night and whether or not they think they are
getting the right amount. After the students have written this down, show the students
(on the overhead projector) how much sleep is needed according to
nationwidechildrens.org (9 hours).
Activity: Have the students track what time they go to sleep and what time they wake
up every day for that week. At the end of the week the students will graph their results
using a bar graph and compare it with the bar graph of a child that gets the
recommended amount of sleep.
Homework: Students will write a reflection on whether or not they are getting enough
sleep and how they think the amount of sleep they get affects their performance in
school.

Heath Related Statistics

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Overview: The students are going to analyze health statistics and figure out the
probability of certain health risks happening to someone based on their health habits.
Materials:

Probability worksheet

Warm Up: Have the students do 2 introductory probability questions.

1. In a standard deck of cards, what is the probability of drawing a 7?
2. On a standard six sided die, what is the probability of rolling an even number?
Activity: The students will use the chart on their probability worksheet to answer
questions about people who developed lung cancer and people who smoked.
PEOPLE WHO:
SMOKED
DIDNT SMOKE
TOTAL:

DEVELOPED LUNG

DIDNT DEVELOP LUNG

CANCER

CANCER

92
8
100

23
77
100

TOTAL:
115
85
200

Example questions:
1. What is the probability that of the 200 people surveyed, the person smoked and
didnt develop lung cancer?
2. What is the probability that a person developed lung cancer, given that they didnt
smoke?
Graphing Growth
Overview:
The students are going to track the growth of a bean plant for 2 weeks and graph its
growth as well as create a table with the independent and dependent variables.

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Materials:

Bean plant
Plant growth worksheet
Graph paper

Activity:
The students are going to track the growth of a bean plant for 2 weeks. On the first day
the children are going to claim and label their plants so that they can easily recognize
which one is theirs when it comes time to measure the growth. At the end of 2 weeks,
the students will have filled in all ten measurements into a table with the independent
variable labeled as the time (in days) and the dependent variable as the height (in
millimeters). Then the student will take the information in the table and graph the
information on a graph.
An example of a hypothetical table:
Time (in days)
Height (in
mm)

1
1.5

2
2.2

3
3.4

4
4.1

5
4.8

6
5.5

7
5.9

8
6.2

9
6.7

10
7.3