Community Project

Description
Your team will be selecting a noticeable challenge in your community to further
investigate. These issues can be as small or large as you like. Do you think the light is too long at
Orchard Lake and Walnut Lake? Do you just really dislike coming to school? Maybe you wish
there were more fresh food markets near you. What drives you crazy? Were going to figure out
how we can DO SOMETHING about it using mathematics.

Breakdown
Part 1: Brainstorm
With your team you are to come up with ideas of challenges in your community. You will begin
to formulate a plan for how you will combat this issue. This involves considering who the issue
affects, on how large of a scale it affects them, and what resources you may need convince the
target audience of how to fix it.

Part 2: Develop a Plan

Once your plan has been approved, you will use the resources to research and investigate how to
solve this problem. Your resources may include - but are not limited to - the internet, your peers,
members of the community (WBHS staff, local store owners, religious organizations, etc.).

Part 3: Implementation
Once you have concrete evidence and a solid plan, you will begin to implement it in all possible
ways. I will work with you in communicating with the community, but you will be initiating the
actions.

Goals
Mathematics Goals:
(1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
(2) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
(3) Model with mathematics.

Social Goals:
(1) Explore social / physical challenges in community
(2) Collaborate with teammates
Timeline
Date Classwork Description Homework

PART 1 BRAINSTORM

TH 3/2 Brainstorm / Organize Team Survey and modify Chapter 6: 55-60

groups

F 3/3 Coordinate and develop idea Develop way to keep in Contact group
communication with members at least
teammates ONCE over weekend

TU 3/7 Organize Thoughts Develop understanding Chapter 6: 62-67

of dynamic of problem.
Consider who, where,
how, when, why.

W 3/8 Your roles / Resources Identify your roles in this Chapter 6: 73-78
problem and how you
can use it to make a
change. Identify useful
resources.

TH 3/9 Team Test / Chapter 5 A Lunch - take test with Chapter 6 Review
retake quiz teams (due Thursday 3/16)
If enough time, can take Chapter 6: 83-88
Chapter 5 retake quiz.

F 3/10 Peer Evaluations Part 1 / Reflecting on peers Chapter 6: 94-99

Conferences with Miss contributions by filling
Garcia / Chapter 5 retake out rubric for teammates.
quiz Meet with Miss Garcia to
evaluate progress.

PART 2 DEVELOP A PLAN

TU 3/14 Book Room / Finish Go to book room to get Chapter 7: 6-11,

conferences new textbooks. 15-17
Meet with Miss Garcia
for conferences.
Complete homework.
Pi Day
 W 3/15 Developing a plan Lay out the exact people, Chapter 7: 28, 30, 31,
days, times you plan to
seek out data.

TH 3/16 Review answers Chapter 7: 34, 37, 39

Further develop plan

FR 3/17 Chapter 6 Individual Test Chapter 7: 29, 32, 33,

35, 36, 38

PART 3 IMPLEMENTATION

TU 3/21 Listing resources - using Listing resources and Chapter 7: 43 - 48

some resources how you plan to use them

WE 3/22 Using resources Continuing to use Chapter 7: 54 - 56,

resources and collect data 59, 65

TH 3/23 No Project Havent been focused Chapter 7: 66-69, 71,

Sections 7.2.2 and 7.2.3
and using time wisely. 75
You will need to spend
some time over the
weekend to continue
research.

TU 3/28 Team Quiz Second half, students will Chapter 7: 77-81

Presentation work on designing their
final presentation: how to
present data, who is
going to speak, what their
main idea is.

Tuesday 3/28
Split / Plan for presentations
- Team quiz 82ab
- Special properties
- Practice worksheet
- LUNCH
- Contacting people
- Organizing presentation

Thursday 3/23
Book Stuff
- Continue proofs with parallelograms and rhombi
- LUNCH
- Brief proof of rectangle
- Try congruent triangles

Wednesday 3/22
Using Resources / Rubric
- Begin with creating an argument (short)
- list reasons why person should believe your claim
- using FACTS

Tuesday 3/21
Put it into effect
- Listing three resources to use
- Using one of three resources today

Friday 3/17
Individual Test
- Take Chapter 6 Individual Test

Thursday 3/16
Adding Structure
- Review questions before test
- LUNCH
- complete worksheet with team and submit by end of hour

Wednesday 3/15
The 5 questions
- 7.1.3 interior design
- LUNCH
- Finish conferences
- 5 questions - who what when where why (and how)

Tuesday 3/14
End Goal
- Bookroom
- Begin work on 12-14 in Chapter 7

Friday 3/10
 Check-in Day
- Peer evaluations
- Chapter 5 retake quiz
- Continue working on homework
- LUNCH
- Team conference with Miss Garcia

Thursday 3/9
Team Test
Team Test
Chapter 5 retake quiz (if time)

Wednesday 3/8
Your role
(BE AS DETAILED AS POSSIBLE)
- Describe your role in your community. What different roles do you play?
- How are you impacted by this challenge?
- What is in your control?
- Make a list of things of which you have control, and things which are out of your control.

Tuesday 3/7
Root of the problem
(BE AS DETAILED AS POSSIBLE)
- How do you see this issue occurring in your life?
- Who else is impacted by or involved in this issue?
- How drastically does this issue affect those people? Does it change from person to person?
How?
- When does this issue arise?
- Does it only occur at certain times or places?
What you will be graded on

Team Test Category

Daily / Weekly submissions (30pts)
Thorough answers to each question

All team members names included

Effective and productive use of class time

Participating in classroom activities

Encouraging peers to share ideas

Final presentation (40pts)

Each team member speaks

Based on data collected / resources used

Clearly outlines group goal

Visually appealing and informative

Peer evaluations (10pts)

One sheet to be filled out for each team member

Proof reasoning quiz (20pts)

Filling in a two column proof

Constructing a logical argument

Review of previous topics

Properties of quadrilaterals