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Real-World Math from KQED's The Lowdown
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Real-World Math from KQED's The Lowdown

Collector: Ann V.
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Middle schoolers explore math concepts like percentages, probability, and statistics in new and inventive ways with a collection of lessons that use videos, graphs, and activities to help them understand issues like climate change, inflation, credit card debt, and the gender wage gap. They can even figure out their odds of winning Powerball! Odds are they'll love these lessons!

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climate change, credit, credit cards, data analysis, discounts, greenhouse gases, housing, inflation, landfills, obesity, percents, probability, probability experiments, proportional reasoning, rates, ratios, simple interest, wages, bivariate data, body mass index, compound events, data display, interest rates, math modeling, multi-step problems, san francisco, spending habits, the greenhouse effect, graphing, the wage gap

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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Math
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Common Core

6.RP.A.1 6.RP.A.2 6.RP.A.3.a 6.RP.A.3.c 6.SP.A.1 7.RP.A.1 7.RP.A.3

Collection Items

    The Lowdown — Percents Defined

    The Lowdown — Percents Defined

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — Defining and Calculating Percents

    The Lowdown — Defining and Calculating Percents

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships with Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems

    The Lowdown — Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships with Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

    The Lowdown — The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — The Math of Credit Cards

    The Lowdown — The Math of Credit Cards

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer (Parts 1 and 2)

    The Lowdown — Understanding Inflation: A Stop Motion Explainer (Parts 1 and 2)

    Instructional Video
    Real-World Proportional Relationships: Gender Wage Gap

    Real-World Proportional Relationships: Gender Wage Gap

    Activity
    The Lowdown — Your Odds of Winning Powerball: Probabilities of Compound Events Using Visuals

    The Lowdown — Your Odds of Winning Powerball: Probabilities of Compound Events Using Visuals

    Instructional Video
    The Lowdown — Exploring Changing Obesity Rates through Ratios and Graphs

    The Lowdown — Exploring Changing Obesity Rates through Ratios and Graphs

    Activity
    The Lowdown — Examining California's Prison System: Real-World Ratio

    The Lowdown — Examining California's Prison System: Real-World Ratio

    Activity
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