Madalina Corneanu, Mathematics, Harding University High School
Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)
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Being a high school teacher is not an easy job these days, you always need to keep up with the new technologies, new apps that help you create a great learning environment and the big amount of information that our students are surrounded by. Our mission as teachers is to prepare highly qualified individuals for the 21st century, ready for the working field, prepared to manage all the requirements for the job they’re applying. What a better way to do that than teaching Math using sports.
Soccer is one of the most popular game in the world and there is a great industry around soccer, starting with the players and coaches, clubs’ administrative team and manager and ending with the fans. That’s why I chose to incorporate soccer in my unit about transformations, since the game is all about movement in the coordinate plane represented by the soccer field (translations, rotations, reflections, dilations).
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