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Extractions: Related Sites GEMS Jr. K-12 Outreach @ WPI Summer Programs @ WPI Women in Engineering Organization (WIEO) July 18-24, 2004 GEMS is sponsored by a grant from the Intel Foundation. Simply put, engineering is solving problems using math and science. Engineers make artificial organs and limbs; create robots to carry out tasks too dangerous for humans; devise ways to treat waste to keep it from polluting the environment; produce materials that are flame resistant; and improve the design of tools and toys we use every day. It's impossible to go through a single day without using something an engineer has helped to create. GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math and Science) is a hands-on exploration of engineering, math and science for young women. You will be able to learn more about potential careers in these areas by engaging in labs facilitated by a dedicated team of WPI faculty and students. Although labs change every year to accommodate repeat participants, in the past they have included comparing the quality of water from various sources and testing different techniques for making it potable, building a robot that responds to sound, and learning about the process of making artificial skin. In addition to labs, participants work in teams on a week-long engineering design project. Last year the project involved using a wheelchair to determine what tasks are difficult for a disabled person to accomplish. The teams then each redesigned their chair and presented the results, using CAD drawings, to an audience of their peers. This year's project will focus on a different aspect of how engineering helps people.
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Extractions: Using Real-World Data Visit the Math Article Archive for more math-related content. Helping students understand and appreciate the value of mathematics is an important part of what teachers do. One means of accomplishing this goal is to provide students with mathematically meaningful activities that involve or grow out of real world situations. The Mathematics Teacher journal (a publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) helps provide resources of this type by publishing each month a Media Clips section. Media Clips include brief news clippings or ads with stories that involve mathematics. For example, in the February 2000 issue (page 120) a clipping from the St. Paul Pioneer Press featured a story concerning how the Federal Comunications Commission (FCC) is seeking ways to limit the profusion of telephone area codes. Accompanying this story were a series of questions addressing the mathematics that was embedded in this news report: what types of numerals are used for area codes, how many possibilities are there, and a mathematical error in the article. In the same section in the April 2000 issue, a brief graph concerning the worlds population reaching 6 billion from the USA TODAY newspaper was featured. A series of questions related to the graph are presented. Whether you use the Media Clips section or just keep your eyes (and mind) open to things you see everyday, the world is full interesting ideas to bring into your math class.
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Extractions: Developing Real World Simulations in Health Technology Math by Donna Jo (D.J.) Pruitt from Inquiry , Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1998, 6-12 Return to Volume 2, Number 1 Abstract Instructors at Southwest Virginia Community College believed that students in Math 126, Mathematics for Allied Health, needed more applied experiences in the classroom. Real-world simulations provided an avenue for active, contextual learning in what had been a traditional classroom. Station # 1 Situation: Mrs. Janice Kilroy is hospitalized for asthmatic bronchitis. She requests her "cough medicine" for a persistent, non-productive cough. In checking her medication administration record, you note that she has Tussend 15 ml q(every) 6h prn (as needed) cough. Pour 15 ml into the plastic medication cup. How do you know you have an accurate dosage? Station # 2 Situation: Mr. Bob Deskins has been admitted to your unit with a fractured left femur. He is complaining of severe pain. On his medication administration record, you note the following medications: Demerol (Meperedine) 100 mg. with Vistaril (Hydroxyzine)
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Extractions: window.document.form1.pagename.value = window.document.location; Learning from Baseball Updated: March 12, 2004 Whether it's time for spring training or the World Series, baseball offers lots of opportunities for learning. It's a game of statistics, so the Math opportunities are almost endless. It's also a national pastime with its own place in American history. Baseball also involves lots of special vocabulary, and some fascinating physics. TeachersFirst has collected samples of Baseball-related lessons from around the Web. We'll add to this collection as suitable new material becomes available. Enjoy! Baseball and Science The Science of Baseball is the Exploratorium's collection of activities and descriptions involving physics, biomechanics, and baseball. What makes a curve ball curve, anyway? How quickly does a batter have to react to hit a ball thrown at 95 miles per hour? There's lots of real-world physics at this site, and the presentation is engaging as well as instructive. The Physics of Baseball - The closest thing we've found to one-stop shopping for baseball physics, this site catalogs more than a dozen resources from simple explanations to Java applets that plot fly ball trajectories. You'll find lots of resources for building lessons or demonstrating principles. From the University of Illinois
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Extractions: by Helen C. Mao High school teachers apply guitar-manufacturing concepts to classroom lessons. A middle school student and his classmates invent a new way of carrying books. Engineers work with elementary and middle school students to design, build, and market toys. Although these images may seem unconventional, they are growing more common as increasing numbers of businesses are becoming involved in mathematics and science education reform. The formation of education-business partnerships is one result of Goals 2000. These partnerships not only help cultivate real-world mathematics and science skills in the classroom, but also teach students how to apply these skills to their everyday lives. One such education-business partnership is the FutureMakers Inventor/Mentor Program . Developed with the Business-Education Compact of Portland, Oregon, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the program helps Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington middle school teachers and their students work with business partners to create inventions that solve problems in the workplace. Aligned with national and Oregon state education standards in science, mathematics, art, social studies, and language arts, FutureMakers aims to show students how mathematics and science concepts underlie product development and invention.
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