Hands-On Math

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HANDS-ON MATH | Landscape Architects

When most people think of architects they think of buildings. But who designs the green space outside the buildings and the plazas, parks, and gardens throughout our cities?

Introduce your students to Jennifer Guthrie and Shannon Nichol, two top landscape architects from an award-winning Seattle firm, and give them an inside look at this fascinating profession and the art, mathematics and science that's required to do it well.

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PROBLEM SOLVING | Bobcat Stats

Students in the role of zookeepers create scatter plots of height and weight data to determine if the bobcat they've been assigned to care for is underweight.

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CHANGING SHAPES | Inventing with Polygons

Chuck Hoberman's inventions are more than just technological marvels; they're works of art.  See how basic principles of geometry help him create extraordinarily strong, expandable structures.

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